Thompson v. Phenix Insurance
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF OREGON. In equity. Decree dismissing the .bill. The plaintiff appealed. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
This suit was brought, July 10, 1885, by the appellant, who is the receiver in the casé of Holladay v. Holladay in the Circuit Court of the county of Multnomah, in the State of Oregon. He seeks a decree reforming a policy of insurance issued by the Phenix Insurance Company of Brooklyn, New York, on the 21st day of April, 1884, and which purported, in consideration of the sum of three hundred dollars, and subject to the conditions named in the policy, .to insure, for the term of one year, “ E. S. Kearney, receiver for Holladay v. Holladay, against loss or damage by fire to the amount of five…
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