ST. PAUL F. & M. INS. CO. v. BACHMANN

No. 311.

285 U.S. 112 (1932)

ST. PAUL FIRE & MARINE INSURANCE CO. v. BACHMANN.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 23, 1932.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. James M. Guiher, with whom Messrs. Russell L. Furbee, Philip P. Steptoe, and Louis A. Johnson were on the brief, for petitioner.

Messrs. Charles J. Schuck and Carl G. Bachmann, with whom Mr. J. Bernard Handlan was on the brief, for respondent.


MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the Court.

This action to recover on a policy of fire insurance was brought in the federal court for northern West Virginia by Sophia C. Bachmann, a citizen of that State, against the St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company, a Minnesota corporation. The parties stipulated that the plaintiff was entitled to recover "unless the policy had been forfeited and nullified by the...

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