Bell v. New Jersey Ins. Co.

DUNKLIN, Chief Justice.

J. D. Bell and wife, Ella J. Bell, have prosecuted this writ of error from a judgment denying them a recovery against the defendant, New Jersey Insurance Company, on a fire insurance policy issued by it, covering a dwelling house owned by the plaintiffs. '

It was alleged in plaintiffs’ petition that the policy sued oh was in the sum of $2,-900, and that the improvements were wholly destroyed by fire during the life of the policy. In the alternative, it was alleged that if the improvements were not a total loss, then they were damaged in the sum of $2,900.

Upon the trial…