Whitestone Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Allstate Insurance

New York Court of Appeals · Decided 1971-04-21

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Scileppi, J. (dissenting). I dissent and vote to modify. We are called upon to consider the question of whether a mortgagee who bid in the full amount of the secured debt at a foreclosure sale, retains, as against the insurer alone, any insurable interest entitling it to sue on a fire insurance policy under a mortgagee loss payable clause. The answer, as proffered by the majority, categorically denies that right…

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