15Assignee may sue in his or her own name

#### 15 Assignee may sue in his or her own name 15 Assignee may sue in his or her own name > Whenever a fire policy has been assigned in such manner and with such consent as aforesaid so as to pass the beneficial interest in such policy to any person entitled to the property thereby insured the assignee of such policy shall be entitled to sue thereon in the assignee’s own name. The defendant in any action shall be entitled to make any defence which the defendant would have been entitled to make if the said action had been brought before such assignment in the name of the person by whom or on whose account the policy sued upon was effected.