Hartford Fire Insurance v. Shlenker
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Warren county. Hon. Georoe Anderson, Judge. Shlenker, appellee, was plaintiff in the court below; the insurance company, appellant, was defendant there. The suit was upon a fire insurance policy covering cotton in bales contained in certain cotton yards in Vicksburg, Miss.
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From the circuit court of Warren county. Hon. Georoe Anderson, Judge. Shlenker, appellee, was plaintiff in the court below; the insurance company, appellant, was defendant there. The suit was upon a fire insurance policy covering cotton in bales contained in certain cotton yards in Vicksburg, Miss. The policy sued on contained the following stipulations: “In consideration of the mutually agreed reduction of one per centum per annum at which this policy is issued, the assured agree to waive any and all benefit that may be claimed under an act of the legislature of Mississippi known as ‘House…
1Opinion of the Court
Whitfield, O. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The act under construction is as follows:
“An act to amend section 1 of chapter 63 of the laws of 1894, known as the ‘Valued Policy Law,’ and to reduce the cost of fire insurance, and to prevent insurance trusts and combines, and to fix the amount of taxes to be paid by fire insurance companies.
“Section 1. Be it enacted by the legislature of the state of Mississippi, that section 1 of chapter 63 of the laws of 1894, be so amended as to read as follows: In suits brought upon policies of insurance against loss by fire, hereafter issued or…
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