California Insurance v. Union Compress Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS. This was an action at law, brought in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Arkansas, by the Union Compress Company, an Arkansas corporation, against the California Insurance Company, of San Francisco, a California corporation, to recover on a policy of insurance against fire, issued by the. latter company to the former company on the 2d of November, 1887. By…
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS. This was an action at law, brought in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Arkansas, by the Union Compress Company, an Arkansas corporation, against the California Insurance Company, of San Francisco, a California corporation, to recover on a policy of insurance against fire, issued by the. latter company to the former company on the 2d of November, 1887. By the policy the California company insured the Compress Company, for the term of thirty days from November 2, 1887, at…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blatcheord
The foregoing exceptions, except the two which relate to ■the sustaining of the demurrer to paragraphs T and 8 of the answer, may be grouped together, because they relate to the same question. The court refused to strike out the matter in the complaint which is before recited in brackets, and also overruled the demurrer of the defendant to that portion of the complaint ; and on the trial the plaintiff was permitted to introduce evidence tending to prove some of the allegations contained in-that part of the complaint. The three instructions before quoted as asked by the defendant, and not…
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- Indianapolis & St. Louis Railroad v. HorstSupreme Court of the United States · 1876
- Phœnix Insurance v. Erie & Western Transportation Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1886
- Vicksburg & Meridian Railroad v. PutnamSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
- Hoffman v. Ætna Fire InsuranceNew York Court of Appeals · 1865
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