Loomis v. Rockford Insurance
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Dane County. This action is upon a policy of insurance. It came to this court on a former appeal from a judgment of nonsuit. The judgment was reversed, and the cause remanded for a new trial. 77 Wis. 87. The cause has been again tried in the circuit court, a verdict for defendant directed, and judgment entered thereon against tbe plaintiff. The plaintiff appeals from such judgment.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Dane County. This action is upon a policy of insurance. It came to this court on a former appeal from a judgment of nonsuit. The judgment was reversed, and the cause remanded for a new trial. 77 Wis. 87. The cause has been again tried in the circuit court, a verdict for defendant directed, and judgment entered thereon against tbe plaintiff. The plaintiff appeals from such judgment. A full statement of the conditions in the policy and the facts of the case will be found in the report on the former appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtLyoN, C. J.
The policy covers property located on different farms several miles apart. The question on the former appeal was whether the policy was divisible or not. The circuit court held it indivisible; and because the plaintiff had sold and conveyed one of the insured buildings without the consent of the defendant company, in violation of a •stipulation in the policy, the court nonsuited him. On the appeal .from the judgment of nonsuit this court held that, because the insured house which the plaintiff thus sold and conveyed was located five miles distant from the insured property which was burned,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Loomis v. Rockford InsuranceWisconsin Supreme Court · 1890
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- Burr v. German InsuranceWisconsin Supreme Court · 1893