United American Insurance v. Union Fire Insurance

The plaintiff in error sued the defendant in error and alleged an oral agreement by the latter to reinsure $2,000 of a $5,000 policy written by the former, and stated in the complaint that within two days after said agreement and before the reinsurance was written a loss occurred and that defendant refused to pay or write the reinsurance. The defendant in error is a foreign company. The district court sustained a demurrer to the complaint, and, when the plaintiff stood by the complaint, dismissed the cause. The judgment was right.

1. The statute, C. L. §2535, is as follows: “No foreign fire or…