North American Ins. v. Whipple
U.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illnois
This was a bill to amend and refortn an insurance policy issued to the defendant on the 22d of October, 1864, and to enjoin the prosecution of a suit at law upon it.
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This was a bill to amend and refortn an insurance policy issued to the defendant on the 22d of October, 1864, and to enjoin the prosecution of a suit at law upon it. The defendant on that day called at the office of B. W. Phillips & Co., agents for this and several other insurance companies, asking for insurance on his stock of goods in Chicago, for two months, which insurance was apportioned among the different companies represented by Phillips & Co., of which the complainant took $15,000. The application was filled out in due form, for the period of two months, in the presence of Whipple,…
1Opinion of the Court
BLODGETT, District Judge.2
It is alleged, in substance, that the firm of B. W. Phillips & Co. was, at the time of the issue of said policy, and had been for some time previous thereto, agents in the city of Chicago for the complainant and several other insurance companies. On the said 22d day of October, 1864, said defendant applied to said firm for sixty days’ insurance, to the amount of $40,000 on their said stock in trade, which amount was distributed by said firm among the various companies for which they were acting as agents, in doing which, $15,000 of said amount was allowed to…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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- Fearing v. IrwinNew York Court of Appeals · 1874