Deline v. Michigan Fire & Marine Insurance

Plaintiff sued for the insurance money on a •dwelling-house policy issued to him in December, 1884. The house was burned early in May, 1886. Suit was begun in November, 1886, and put at issue on several defenses, going mostly to alleged wrongs of plaintiff in getting out the policy, and in causing the fire. In November, 1887, the case came •on for trial; and, after it had been opened to the jury, ■defendant’s counsel moved to add a new notice to the effect that plaintiff had burned a house formerly standing on the ¡same premises, and had concealed this fact from the agent when he took out the…