Bowling v. Continental Insurance
West Virginia Supreme Court
Certified Questions from Circuit Court, Summers County. Action by W. P. Bowling, receiver, etc., against the Continefi-tal Insurance Company. Demurrer to declaration overruled, and question certified.
1Opinion of the Court
Lynch, Judge:
The declaration held sufficient on demurrer and certified here substantially presents the following case for adjudication: The Hinton Hardware Company, a corporation engaged in a wholesale and retail hardware business in the City of Hinton, procured from defendant February 8, 1915, a three-year policy of insurance, against damage or destruction by fire on a two-story metal roof frame building in Hinton in which it conducted such business. Sometime in the month of August of that year the directors and stockholders decided to and by a resolution did effect a reorganization of the…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Thompson v. Phenix InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1890
- Keeney v. . Home Insurance CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1877
- Tucker v. Colonial Fire InsuranceWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1905
- City Bank of Wheeling v. BryanWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1915
- Walradt v. Phœnix Insurance Co. of HartfordNew York Court of Appeals · 1893
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- Thompson v. State Automobile Mutual InsuranceWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1940
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- United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Central Trust Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1924
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