Page v. Scott

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• rejecting “the fiction that by paying the rent, the lessee paid the insurance premium,” and noting that “more often than not the market, i.e., supply and demand, is the controlling factor in fixing and negotiating rents.”
• rejecting the legal fiction that tenant paid insurance premium absent evidence that tenant paid any greater rent because of insurance and observing that “more often than not the market, i.e., supply and demand, is the controlling factor in fixing and negotiating rents”
• suit by insurer to recover for loss caused by tenant’s negligence not blocked unless insurance was obtained for the benefit of both landlord and tenant
• both lessor and lessee have an insurable interest in leased property, and either may insure his interest for his own benefit
• rejecting doctrine of implied coinsureds

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).