Case Name: NATIONAL-BEN FRANKLIN FIRE INS. CO. v. SHORT
Court: Oklahoma Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Oklahoma
Decision Date: 1953-01-10
Citations: 252 P.2d 495
Docket Number: No. 35061
Parties: NATIONAL-BEN FRANKLIN FIRE INS. CO. v. SHORT.
Judges: 
Reporter: Pacific Reporter 2d
Volume: 252
Pages: 495–496

Head Matter:
NATIONAL-BEN FRANKLIN FIRE INS. CO. v. SHORT.
No. 35061.
Supreme Court of Oklahoma.
Jan. 10, 1953.
Rittenhouse, Hanson, Evans & Turner, Oklahoma City, for plaintiff in error.
Hope & Hope, Maysville and H. M. Red-wine, Oklahoma City, for defendant in error.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
This is a companion case to cause No. 34.894, Rochester American Insurance Co. v. Short, Okl.Sup., 252 P.2d 490 styled Rochester American Insurance Company, a corporation, v. N. J. Short, this day decided. The two- cases grew out of the same fire. The house involved in this case is the identical property involved in Cause No. 34.894. The destroyed property was insured by two separate policies • in the total amount of $5000. The .policy in Cause No. 34,894 was 'for an amount not to exceed $3000, and the policy in the present case was for an amount not to exceed $3000. The liability under both policies arose under the same fire.
The facts in these two cases were álmost identical and the identical questions óf law were involved in both.
Cause No. 34,894, supra., is therefore decisive of the issues in the present cause.
Judgment affirmed,