Ashton Jenkins Ins. Co. v. Layton Sugar Co.

EPHRAIM HANSON, Justice.

Plaintiff is an insurance broker representing fire and other insurance companies in this state. The defendant is the owner of a sugar plant at Layton, Davis county, Utah. In the year 1925 defendant carried fire insurance of $450,000 on its property. Of this amount $25,000 was in one of the companies represented by plaintiff. All the insurance carried by defendant expired in December, 1925. Prior to the expiration of the insurance, defendant advised plaintiff that it did not intend to renew with plaintiff a policy which it had written, and that the defendant was…