John R. Davis Lumber Co. v. Hartford Fire Insurance
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeals from judgments of the circuit court for Winnebago county: Geo. W. Buehell, Circuit Judge. Action to recover on several policies of insurance against loss by fire.
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Appeals from judgments of the circuit court for Winnebago county: Geo. W. Buehell, Circuit Judge. Action to recover on several policies of insurance against loss by fire. The Hartford Fire Insurance Company of Hartfoi'd, Connecticut, the National Fire Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut, and the Phoenix Assurance Company of london, England, each issued one of such policies, for $5,000, through its agents, Sunderland & Ostrander, at West Superior, Wisconsin, June 10, 1894, and each of such companies made another of such policies for $5,000, through its agents, Robert Shields & Son, at…
1Opinion of the CourtMaeshall, J.
The findings of fact are to the effect that Winchester was an insurance broker, with all the ordinary authority as such, to procure insurance for plaintiff, subject only to its approval respecting the character of the insurance companies issuing the policies; that, as such broker, he procured for plaintiff three of the policies in question, from defendants’ agents, Sunderland & Ostrander, at West Superior, Wisconsin, which, for convenience, we will designate •^as the first line; that such policies were issued in consideration, in part, of an agreement made with Winchester on plaintiff’s…
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