Mechanics' Ins. Co. of Philadelphia v. C. A. Hoover Distilling Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Iowa. Action by the C. A. Hoover Distilling Company against the Mechanics’ Insurance Company of Philadelphia, the St., Paul.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Iowa. Action by the C. A. Hoover Distilling Company against the Mechanics’ Insurance Company of Philadelphia, the St., Paul. Eire & Marine Insurance Company, the Phenix Insurance Company of Brooklyn, N. Y., the Royal 'Insurance, Company of'Liverpool, the German American Insurance Company of New York, the Insurance Company of North America, the North British & Mercantile Insurance .Company of London and Edinburgh, the Rochester German Insurance Company of Rochester, N. Y., the Phoenix Insurance Company of Hartford,…
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
The C. A. Hoover Distilling Company made whisky for about three years and placed it in a bonded warehouse at Oskaloosa in the state of Iowa. It procured from many insurance companies policies of insurance against fire upon it. On May 15, 1908, it burned. The Hoover Company brought actions- on the policies; 15 of these actions were consolidated and tried together in the court below, verdicts and judgments were rendered against the companies; 'and 13 of them are challenged by the writs of error in these cases.., The first reason given in the printed argument of counsel…
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