Scottish Union & National Ins. Co. v. Hagan

DALLAS, Circuit Judgé.

By the libel in ibis case tbe appellees, Peter Hagan and Edward P. Martin, claimed to recover from the appellant, tbe Scottish Union & National Insurance Company, upon a fire policy on a .tugboat, insuring Peter Hagan & Co. for account of whom it may concern. The court below entered a decree for tbe libelants (98 Fed. 129), and thereupon tbe insurance company appealed.

Tbe policy provided that it should be entirely void “if tbe interest of tbe insured be other than unconditional or sole ownership, ⅜ * * or if any change, other than by tbe death of an insured, take place…