Commercial Union Assurance Co. v. Hocking
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Somerset county: Of January Term, 1887, No. 174. Assumpsit, by George H. Hocking, brought April 17th, 1885, against The Commercial Union Assurance Company of London, on a policy of fire insurance issued by the defendant to the plaintiff.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Somerset county: Of January Term, 1887, No. 174. Assumpsit, by George H. Hocking, brought April 17th, 1885, against The Commercial Union Assurance Company of London, on a policy of fire insurance issued by the defendant to the plaintiff. The facts of the case as they appeared on the trial before Baer, P. J., are as follows: ' On the 1st day of December, 1884, George H. Hocking, the defendant in error and plaintiff below, obtained from the Commercial Union Assurance Company of Lo'ndon, the plaintiff in error and defendant below, á policy of insurance, upon…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clark
The policy in suit was issued 1st December, 1884, by the Commercial Union Assurance Company, to George H. Hocking, in the sum of one thousand dollars, for one year from the date thereof, on his-two-story frame building, etc., in Meversdale, Penna., with the privilege of other insurance. When the policy issued, Hocking held a.policy of the Howard Insurance Company of New York for $2,000, dated 24th November, 1884, on the same building; and afterwards, on the 3d December, 1884, obtained a policy of the German American Insurance Co., in the sum of $1,000, making the total insurance $4,000, all…
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