Mitchell v. Home Insurance
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Webster Circuit Cowri. Action upon a policy of insurance issued to Thompson & Co., and assigned to plaintiff. The policy is upon a two-story frame building, situated upon the north side of the public square in Fort Dodge, Iowa, and occupied as a paint shop. So far as the facts of the case can be gathered from the abstract submitted, they are that one Gr.
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Appeal from Webster Circuit Cowri. Action upon a policy of insurance issued to Thompson & Co., and assigned to plaintiff. The policy is upon a two-story frame building, situated upon the north side of the public square in Fort Dodge, Iowa, and occupied as a paint shop. So far as the facts of the case can be gathered from the abstract submitted, they are that one Gr. W. Henry owned the real estate upon which the building in question was subsequently erected, and leased the same to J. E. Dain by written lease. Afterward the property was leased to Thompson & Co., by Dain it would seem, but it…
1Opinion of the Court
Day, Ch. J.
The material errors alleged will be briefly considered.
1. insurance : notice of loss. I.The first error assigned is, that the court erred in not setting aside the Verdict and granting a new trial for want of sufficient evidence. Appellant in-g^s eTj(Jence ¿lues not show any notice given of the loss, or proof thereof; that it does not show that plaintiff ever had any insurable interest in the property destroyed; that it does not show that there ever was any consent in writing, on the policy, of the assignment from Thompson & Co. to plaintiff. We will consider these objections as…
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