Home Mutual Insurance Co. of California v. Roe
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ERROR to the Circuit Court for Winnebago County. Action upon a policy of insurance against fire. The following statement of the case was prepared by Mr. Justice Cassoday: January 26, 1885, J. H. Weed, in behalf of G. W. Roe, through, one L. D. Harmon, an insurance agent at Oshkosh, and in consideration of $60 paid to the Home Mutual Insurance Company of California, obtained from it, by the bands of its agents at Oshkosh, Palmer & McLaren, a written policy of insurance issued…
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ERROR to the Circuit Court for Winnebago County. Action upon a policy of insurance against fire. The following statement of the case was prepared by Mr. Justice Cassoday: January 26, 1885, J. H. Weed, in behalf of G. W. Roe, through, one L. D. Harmon, an insurance agent at Oshkosh, and in consideration of $60 paid to the Home Mutual Insurance Company of California, obtained from it, by the bands of its agents at Oshkosh, Palmer & McLaren, a written policy of insurance issued by said company, wherein and whereby it insured said “ C. W. Roe against loss or damage by fire, to the amount of…
1Opinion of the CourtCassoday, J.
The important question presented is -whether -the engine-room and the machinery therein destroyed by fire were covered by the policy. Much of the parol evidence offered on the part of Mr. Doe was excluded on the ground that the contract was in writing and the best evidence. *37No evidence was offered on the part of the company. What little evidence there was admitted in the case is undisputed. It is to the effect that the planing-mill mentioned was on the south side of the mill pond; that, as a matter of security, the engine-room was twenty-two feet south of the planing-mill and contained the…
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