HARTFORD INS. CO. v. CHICAGO & c. RAILWAY

No. 5.

175 U.S. 91 (1899)

HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY v. CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RAILWAY COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 6, 1899.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Charles A. Clark and Mr. Richard W. Barger for plaintiffs in error and petitioners.

Mr. Charles B. Keeler and Mr. George R. Peck for defendants in error and respondents.


MR. JUSTICE GRAY delivered the opinion of the court.

This was an action brought May 10, 1893, in the district court of Jones County in the State of Iowa, against the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company, a railroad corporation of Wisconsin, by seven fire insurance companies, corporations of other States, to recover for the loss by fire, owing to the defendant's negligence, of a warehouse and goods, belonging to the partnership of Simpson, McIntire &...

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