Home Insurance v. Gwathmey
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of corporation court of city of Norfolk, rendered August 3d, 1885, in an action wherein W. W. Gwathmey & Co., for use of Battle, Bunn & Co., and Everett Bros., Gibson & Co., are plaintiffs, and The Home Insurance Company is defendant. This was an action on a fire insurance policy for contribution as on a double insurance. The verdict and judgment were that defendant pay plaintiffs the sum of $2,110.73, with interest from March 17th, 1885, and their costs.
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Error to judgment of corporation court of city of Norfolk, rendered August 3d, 1885, in an action wherein W. W. Gwathmey & Co., for use of Battle, Bunn & Co., and Everett Bros., Gibson & Co., are plaintiffs, and The Home Insurance Company is defendant. This was an action on a fire insurance policy for contribution as on a double insurance. The verdict and judgment were that defendant pay plaintiffs the sum of $2,110.73, with interest from March 17th, 1885, and their costs. At the trial defendant excepted to several rulings of the court, and to the judgment obtained a writ of error and…
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
This action is upon a policy of insurance by the assured, commission merchants and licensed warehousemen, for the benefit of owners of merchandise on storage in their warehouse and destroyed by fire. The said depositors had other insurance of their own, taken out by them, to cover, and more than covering, the entire value of all the goods stored by them in the wárehouse; but their insurers, claiming that as the said warehousemen had insurance on their warehouse, and their own goods therein, greater than the value of their own losses, the insurers of the said warehousemen, of whom the…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Home Insurance v. Baltimore Warehouse Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1876
- Tyler v. Ætna Fire InsuranceNew York Supreme Court · 1834
- Turley v. North American Fire InsuranceNew York Supreme Court · 1841
- Rogers v. Trader's InsuranceNew York Court of Chancery · 1837
- Prsdt. and Directors of Balto. Fire Ins. Co. v. LoneyCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1862
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- Connecticut Fire Insurance v. TilleySupreme Court of Virginia · 1892
- Mutual Assurance Society v. Scottish Union & National InsuranceSupreme Court of Virginia · 1887
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