Aachen & Munich Fire Ins. v. Morton
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to th« Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern Division of the Western District of Michigan. The Aachen & Munich Eire Insurance Company, a foreign corporation doing business in Michigan, insured against loss by fire a certain hotel building and furniture therein situated in that state, and owned by a Michigan corporation Known as the “St. Joseph Hotel Company.”
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In Error to th« Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern Division of the Western District of Michigan. The Aachen & Munich Eire Insurance Company, a foreign corporation doing business in Michigan, insured against loss by fire a certain hotel building and furniture therein situated in that state, and owned by a Michigan corporation Known as the “St. Joseph Hotel Company.” This contract of insurance bore, date of July 17, 1897, and covered the risk for one year, unless sooner terminated by cancellation, as provided by the policy. Attached to the policy was a slip providing “loss, if…
1Opinion of the CourtBurton, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). Two questions have been argued as defenses arising under the demurrer to the plaintiff’s declaration: First, the effect of the judgment of the Illinois court as res ad judicata; and, second, the Michigan statute 'limiting personal actions to six years. These in their order.
The policy of insurance upon which Graham’s suit for the use of Stone was brought contained the usual provision that “this policy shall be canceled at any time at the request of the insured, or by the company, by giving five days’ notice of such cancellation,” etc. The defense made to the…
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