Colver v. Central States Fire Insurance

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This was an action on a policy of fire insurance on a farmhouse. The defense was based on plaintiff’s want of insurable interest.

The material facts were these:

On June 4,1909, one George Miller died seized of a 320-acre farm in Edwards county. By his will he devised a life estate in the farm to a brother, Jonas W. Miller, Sr., and the remainder to that brother’s son, Jonas W. Miller, Jr.

The life tenant had a daughter who was married to James Hohn, following which Jonas told Hohn “to take the land and do what he pleased with it, and farm it,…