Coates v. Pennsylvania Fire Insurance
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas. This is an action on a policy of fire insurance, brought by the appellants against the appellee. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the CourtRitcuim, J.
The single question to be determined on this appeal is whether the plaintiffs, to whom the policy of insurance on which they seek to recover, was issued by the defendant, are entitled to maintain this action in their own name, because of the policy’s containing the clause, “Loss, if any, payable to the Havings Bank of Baltimore, mortgagee,” notwithstanding the mortgagee had given its written consent to the plaintiffs, so to bring the suit, and such consent was averred in the narr.
The plaintiffs were the party with whom the company contracted; were the owners of the property insured, when the…
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