Washington Save Deposit & Trust Co. v. Lietzow
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Spokane county, Kennan, J., entered April 91, 1909, upon findings in favor of the plaintiff, in an action to quiet title, after a trial on the merits before the court without a jury.
1Opinion of the CourtCrow, J.
Some years prior to 1904, Paul Lietzow was paid $1,000 by the Hamburg-Bremen Fire Insurance Company, and $500 by the Liverpool, London & Globe Fire Insurance Company, upon two separate policies of insurance for losses on property destroyed by fire. Early in 1904 he, claiming to be actuated by conscience, informed the insurance *282companies that he had burned the property to secure the insurance, and that he desired to make restitution. He then held a written contract for the purchase of eighty acres of land in Spokane county from the Northern Pacific Railway Company, upon which $80 of the…
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