Killips v. Putnam Fire Insurance
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Walworth County. Tbe defendant company appealed from a judgment rendered against it in an action on a fire insurance policy.
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APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Walworth County. Tbe defendant company appealed from a judgment rendered against it in an action on a fire insurance policy. Tbe facts are stated in tbe opinion. argued tbat plaintiff was bound to prove tbat all tbe conditions of tbe policy, precedent to a recovery, bad been literally complied with on bis part, as required by tbe terms of tbe policy (6 Term, 722; 2 H. Blacks., 577, note; 20 Wis., 205); tbat inasmuch as tbe pre' liminary proofs and notice of loss were not served on tbe company, until over a year after tbe fire occurred, there was a total…
1Opinion of the CourtLyof, J.
On the 24th day of November, 1866, the plaintiff paid the premium and received from the defendant, the insurance company, a policy insuring him against loss or damage' by fire to certain buildings and personal property situated in the town of New Berlin, county of Waukesha, to the amount of $1,320. On the 22d day of June, 1867, and within the life of such policy, the insured property was destroyed by fire. Immediately thereafter, and probably on the next day after the fire, the plaintiff gave the local agent of the defendant, at Wau-kesha, notice of the loss.
During the latter part of July, or…
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