Case ID: kan_92/html/0486-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "West, J.:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 18,534.
    Joseph Humble, Appellee, v. The German Alliance Insurance Company, Appellant.
    
    OPINION ON REHEARING.
    Appeal from Cherokee district court; Edward E. Sapp, judge.
    Opinion on rehearing filed June 6, 1914.
    Former opinion of affirmance adhered to. (See 91 Kan. 307, 137 Pac. 980.)
    
      Robert Stone, and George T. McDermott, both of Topeka, for the appellant.
    /. N. Dunbar, of Columbus, for the appellee.
   The opinion of the court was delivered by

West, J.:

On rehearing it is earnestly insisted that the property insured was already encumbered, and that on this account upon principle and by the weight of authority the plain terms of the policy — standard form — relieve the company from liability. The majority of the court, however, are of the opinion that until the legislature shall prescribe the terms and effect of a policy, the insured who is asked and who answers nothing respecting encumbrances on the property, and who pays his money in the belief that he is procuring insurance, should not be held bound by the encumbrance clause.

The former opinion will therefore remain unchanged.