Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Company v. Stanley C. Edmister and Dorothy Mae Edmister

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that an insurable interest need not be “a fee simple holding or an absolute ownership of property”
• refusing to find an insurable interest where former property owner misled insurance company regarding state of title
• status as tenants and fact that insured dwelling was used as business headquarters insufficient to constitute an insurable interest
• former owner remaining in possession may have insurable interest, but insured must show facts establishing actual pecuniary loss recoverable under policy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).