Legal Opinion
Van Buren v. St. Joseph County Village Fire Insurance
Michigan Supreme Court
Decided January 7, 1874PublishedCited by 29 opinions
Error to St Joseph Circuit.
1Opinion of the CourtChristiancy, J.
Plaintiff in error brought his action against the insurance company in the circuit court for the county of St. Joseph upon a policy of insurance issued to him January 3d, 1870, insuring him against loss by fire to the amount of four thousand dollars upon his wooden hotel building, known as “The Western Hotel,” in the village of Mendon, in said county, and to the amount of one thousand dollars on the furniture therein.
■The company was a mutual insurance company, authorized to insure property only of its members, and this only when-situate in the county of St. Joseph.
The facts admitted in the…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Carpenter v. Providence Washington InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1842
- Grosvenor v. . the Atlantic Fire Insurance Co. of BrooklynNew York Court of Appeals · 1858
- Bidwell v. . Northwestern Insurance CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1859
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