Syndicate Ins. v. Bohn
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Nebraska. These were four actions by William G. and Conrad Bohn and the National Life Insurance Company, of Montpelier, Vt., against the Syndicate Insurance Company, of Minneapolis, Minn., and the New Hampshire Fire Insurance Company, upon policies of insurance. Upon the trial in the circuit court, judgment was rendered for the plaintiffs in all the actions.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
Are the sole owners of the capital stock of a corporation, who have procured policies of insurance against fire, running to themselves, in their individual names, upon a building, the title to which was in the corporation, debarred from any recovery on the policies by the provisions therein to the effect that the policies shall be void if the interest of the assured is not the sole and nnconditional ownership of the property described, or if that interest is not truly stated to the companies, or in the policies or in the indorsements thereon? If so, is a mortgagee whose…
2Cases cited22 opinions
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- Columbian Insurance Co. of Alexandria v. LawrenceSupreme Court of the United States · 1829
- Hastings v. . Westchester Fire Ins. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1878
- Hartford Fire Insurance v. OlcottIllinois Supreme Court · 1881
- Weed v. London & Lancashire Fire InsuranceNew York Court of Appeals · 1889
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- Bacot v. Phoenix Insurance Co. of BrooklynMississippi Supreme Court · 1909
- Syracuse Savings Bank v. Yorkshire InsuranceNew York Court of Appeals · 1950
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