National Union Fire Insurance Co. v. Kent

This suit was brought to collect from the appellant insurance company a thousand dollars, the face of the policy, which had been written to cover a barn and the feed and grain and seed stored therein. Eight hundred dollars of the insurance was on the barn, $100 on the grain and seed, and $100 on the hay and fodder.

The answer denied liability on the ground that appellee, the insured, had falsely represented himself to be the sole owner, whereas he was in fact the owner of only an undivided interest as tenant in common with his mother and brothers and sisters, the deed to the land having been…