The Pyro Corporation has outstanding twenty thousand shares of common stock, of which nineteen thousand are owned by Peter B. Arson; five hundred shares are owned by Elizabeth Arson, his wife; and five hundred shares are owned by Joseph Q. Arson, his brother.
These three individuals are the officers and directors of the corporation. The Pyro Corporation obtained a $750,000 fire insurance policy to cover a certain building it owned.
Thereafter, Peter B. Arson set fire to the building, and it was totally destroyed. Can the corporation recover from the fire insurance company on the $750,000 fire insurance policy? Why?