Casey-Swasey Co. v. Manchester Fire Insurance

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

—The property covered by the insurance policy declared on in this case was destroyed by fire January 27, 1902. Z. P. West, who was then owner both of the policy and of the property insured, transferred the policy immediately after the fire to J. T. Meroney, who afterwards assigned it to appellant. Appellee, the company issuing the policy pleaded as grounds of forfeiture, inter alia, breaches of the iron safe clause and of the clause against “fraud and false swearing concerning the insurance or the subject matter thereof, whether before or after the loss.” These…