Mercantile Insurance Co. v. Jaynes

This was a bill in equity, exhibited by appellees against appellant, in the court below, to correct a mistake in a policy

of insurance on a stock of staves, headings, hoops and barrels in appellees’ cooper shop, in the city of St. Louis, and to enforce payment for a loss by fire of. the insured property.

It is alleged, that appellees applied to Stewart & Co., the St. Louis agents of appellant, for a policy of insurance, to run from May 22, 1874, to April 3, 1875, and paid to such agents the price charged therefor—$36.63; that in issuing the policy it was, by mistake, made to run from the 22d of…