National Reserve Ins. Co. of Illinois v. Scudder

SAWTELLE, Circuit Judge.

This was a suit to reform a policy of fire insurance issued by appellant, defendant below, and to recover thereon the sum of $5,-000. The complaint alleges that on November 23, 192,7, the plaintiffs, W. C. Seudder and S. C. Blanchard, copartners operating a fruit packing establishment at Fair Oaks, Cal., applied to G. C. Hubbell, local agent of the defendant insurance company, for a policy of fire insurance, in the amount of $5,000; on a fruit packing building owned by the plaintiffs at Fair Oaks. Insurance of $4,000 was to be placed upon the building and $l,000l on…