Western Sugar Refining Co. v. Helvetia Swiss Fire Ins.

(orally). In this case the plaintiff seeks to apply the doctrine of undisclosed principal to. a contract of insurance.

The action is based upon three certain policies of fire insurance, issued by the Rhine & Moselle Fire Insurance Company to the plaintiff, and copies of these policies are attached to the complaint and made a part thereof. Although these policies were issued by the Rhine & Moselle Fire Insurance Company, whose name alone appears as the insurer, plaintiff sues the defendant, the Helvetia Swiss Fire Insurance Company, alleging that the latter was the undisclosed principal of the…