Dowling v. Lancashire Insurance
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Eau Ulaire county: Feank M. Fish, Judge. This is an action upon a policy of insurance issued by the defendant to the plaintiff Dowling in the sum of $500, $250 of which was on his stock of wines, liquors, and merchandise, and $250 upon his furniture and fixtures, in a certain saloon in Eau Claire.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Eau Ulaire county: Feank M. Fish, Judge. This is an action upon a policy of insurance issued by the defendant to the plaintiff Dowling in the sum of $500, $250 of which was on his stock of wines, liquors, and merchandise, and $250 upon his furniture and fixtures, in a certain saloon in Eau Claire. The policy contained an indorsement thereon as follows, to wit: “ Loss, if any, payable to P. J. Bowlin & Co., mortgagee, as their interest may appear,”— under which name, it appears, the plaintiff P. J. Bowlin conducted business. While the insurance…
1Opinion of the CourtPinxey, J.
1. The action is upon a “Wisconsin standard policy of fire insurance,” prepared, approved, and adopted by the insurance commissioner under ch. 195, Laws of 1891, which contains the condition that the policy shall be void “if the subject of insurance be personal property and be or become incumbered by a chattel mortgage,” and also the stipulation that “ no officer, agent, or other representative of the company shall have power to wTaive any provision or condition of this policy except such as by the. terms of this policy may be the subject of agreement indorsed hereon or added hereto, and as…
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