American Insurance v. Replogle

This was an action by Replogle against the American Insurance Company and the Home Insurance Company of New York, to recover on a policy of fire insurance issued by the first named company, the company last named having assumed the liability of the former by reinsuring its risks.

The policy sued on contained a stipulation to the effect that if the assured should thereafter obtain any other insurance on any part of the property thereby insured, without the consent of the secretary of the company thereon endorsed, then, and in every such case, the policy was to be void, and the assured was to…