71 Iowa 119 | Iowa | 1887
The policy in suit contains a condition that it shall become void “ if the property insured be sold, or any change tahe place in the title thereof, or if the property or any part thereof, hereafter in any manner whatever incumbered.” The answer alleges that plaintiff, after the execution of the policy, and before the fire, incumbered the property insured by executing on his interest therein, which was one-third, a mortgage, etc., and that it was incumbered during the same time by a judgment against plaintiff, which became and has remained a lien on the property. It is shown by the pleadings that the policy was issued to a firm of which plaintiff is a partner, and that the policy, after the loss, was assigned to him. The plaintiff demurs to the answer, on the ground that the mortgage and judgment, having been executed and rendered while plaintiff was one
The case, in our opinion, was rightly decided by the court below.
Affirmed.