Power v. Ocean Insurance
Supreme Court of Louisiana
EasterN Bis. APPEAR PROM THE PARISH COURT POR THE PARISH AND CITY OP NEW OREEANS. This is an action on a policy of insurance, to recover the amount of a loss by fire, on property insured in the office of the defendants. The case turned entirely on the construction to be given to a clause in the policy, providing against any assignment or transfer of the property insured, on pain of nullity, without the consent of the insurers.
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EasterN Bis. APPEAR PROM THE PARISH COURT POR THE PARISH AND CITY OP NEW OREEANS. This is an action on a policy of insurance, to recover the amount of a loss by fire, on property insured in the office of the defendants. The case turned entirely on the construction to be given to a clause in the policy, providing against any assignment or transfer of the property insured, on pain of nullity, without the consent of the insurers. The fact furthermore appearing that the property had been sold to one Frederick during the continuance of- the risk, but which had also been taken back on account of…
1Opinion of the CourtMorphy, J.
The plaintiff seeks to recover #1257 25 under a policy wherein defendants insured her against fire to the amount of $3000, on household furniture, liquors, bar room fixtures and billiard tables contained in a building- situate at the corner of *29Champs Elysée and Levee streets, for one year from the 2d of December, 1837. The record shows that after the date of the policy the property insured was sold to one Ursin Frederick , . , , . , . . , , and remained m his possession about six months, but that before the happening of the loss, the property reverted back to the plaintiff in consequence of…
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