Lancaster Fire Insurance v. George L. Lenheim & Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Susquehanna county: Of July Term 1878, No. 53. Assumpsit by George L. and Lewis S. Lenheim, trading as George L. Lenheim & Co., against the Lancaster Eire Insurance Company, upon a policy of insurance for $1000, issued on 24th September 1874, for one year, to Lewis S. Lenheim, “ on his stock of merchandise of all kinds usually kept in a country retail store.” The store was in Great Bend borough, Susquehanna county.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Susquehanna county: Of July Term 1878, No. 53. Assumpsit by George L. and Lewis S. Lenheim, trading as George L. Lenheim & Co., against the Lancaster Eire Insurance Company, upon a policy of insurance for $1000, issued on 24th September 1874, for one year, to Lewis S. Lenheim, “ on his stock of merchandise of all kinds usually kept in a country retail store.” The store was in Great Bend borough, Susquehanna county. On January 1st 1875, Lewis S. Lenheim sold half his store to his son George L., and the business was afterwards conducted in the name of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gordon
The policy, which forms the foundation of this suit, covers a stock of “general merchandise of all kinds usually kept in a country retail store.” The insurance is “against all immediate loss or damage as may occur by fire to the property specified, not exceeding the sum insured nor the interest of the assured in the property, EXCEPT as hereinafter provided.” -Then, in immediate connection yith the clause containing the above, comes the condition that the company shall not be held liable, unless by special consent in writing endorsed thereon, for any loss “ where gunpowder, phosphorous,…
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