Meerdink v. the American Ins. Co.

In a suit on a fire insurance policy defendant filed plea as follows:

“That this defendant adm'ts the execution and delivery of the fire insurance policy as alleged and set forth in said declaration, and admits that said policy was issued to C. J. Meerdink, the plaintiff herein, as the assured, and as the unconditional and sole owner of the property insured, but avers and shows unto the Court that the plaintiff ought not to have and maintain this action in this; that the plaintiff, C. J. Meerdink, at the time of the application for sa'd policy represented himself to be the unconditional and…