Hughes v. Insurance Co. of North America

Ragan, C.

Patrick S. Hughes sued the Insurance Company of North America in the district court on a policy of fire insurance to recover the value of a building destroyed by fire owned by said Hughes and insured by said insurance company. At the close of the testimony the district court *628directed a verdict for the defendant, upon which judgment was rendered, and Hughes brings the case here on error.

The policy sued upon contained this provision: “That the having of other insurance thereon [the property], or any part thereof, valid or invalid, prior or subsequent,' not made known to this company…