Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1900 — LAW AS INTERPRETED. [ARTICLE]

LAW AS INTERPRETED.

An exception of dealers In grain, live stock and dressed meats from a statute requiring commission merchants in cities to be licensed is held, in Lasher vs. People (Ill.) 47 L. R. A. 802. to be const'tutional and not to constitute an nrbltiary discrimination, since the classification is a natural one. An equitable title with the full right to a II for the legal title Is held, In Russell vs. Myer (N. D.), 47 L. TL A. 037, to be sufficient to sustain an action against a trespasser. A note to this rase collects the authorities on sufficiency of equitable title to sustain action for trespass to land. 'Balance of a mortgage debt after de dueling the amount for which the property was bought by the mortgagee on foreclosure is held, in First National Bajk vs. Elliott (Ala.), 47 L. A. A. 742, nol to constitute a “lawful charge” which the statute requires a creditor of the mortgagor to pay on redemption from the sale. Contract limitation in an insurance policy requiring suit to he brought within twelve months after loss Is held, in Harrison vs. Hartford Fire Iniurnnce Company (Iowa), 47 L. It. A. 709, not to be subject to a code provUlon that a new suit brought within slk months after termination of a former one shall be deemed a continuation of the first. A note to tills case reviews the authorities on stipulation limiting time for suit on insurance policy—when begins to run. A stipulation that suit can he brought on an insurance policy only “within twelve months next after the lire" is held, In Sample vs. London and Liverpool Fire Insurance Company (S. C.), 47 L. It. A. 006, to give the Insured twelve months after the accrual of his right of action, where the policy provides that suit cannot be brought until after full compliance with numerous requirements, and that the loss shall not lie payable until sixty days after notice and proofs of loss and an award ky appraisers, if appraisal is required.