New England Fire & Marine Insurance v. Wetmore
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Knox county, the Hon. Charles B. Lawrence, Judge, presiding. This was an action of assumpsit, instituted in the court below, by George H. Wetmore and Mary A. Wetmore, his wife, and Charles Long, against the Hew England Fire and Marine Insurance Company, to recover damages occasioned by the destruction by fire, of a house upon which the defendants had issued a policy of insurance.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Knox county, the Hon. Charles B. Lawrence, Judge, presiding. This was an action of assumpsit, instituted in the court below, by George H. Wetmore and Mary A. Wetmore, his wife, and Charles Long, against the Hew England Fire and Marine Insurance Company, to recover damages occasioned by the destruction by fire, of a house upon which the defendants had issued a policy of insurance. It appears from the record in the cause, that on the 5th of Hovember, 1856, one William H. Marvel executed his promissory notes to John Biggen, and a mortgage to secure their payment,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Breese
It-appears by the record in this case, that one Marvel, on the fifth of November, 1856, executed his notes to one Biggin, and a mortgage to secure their payment on a certain lot in the city of Galesburg, two of which notes and mortgage were, on the 19th of March, 1859, assigned by Biggin to M. A. Wet-more and Charles Long; that George H. Wetmore was the husband of M. A. Wetmore, and, on March 25, 1859, he, with Long,‘effected a policy of insurance with the appellants on the premises, as" “a boarding house,” for one year, against loss by fire, to the amount of nine hundred dollars, their…
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