Collins v. Farmville Insurance & Banking Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil ActioN tried at Spring Term, 1878, of Halifax Superior Court, before Seymour, J. This action was brought to recover the amount of a fire’ insurance policy issued to plaintiff by defendant company upon a stock of drugs and medicines which were after-wards destroyed by fire. The facts applicable to the point decided by this Court appear in its opinion. Under the instructions of His Honor the jury found for the plaintiff-judgment. Appeal by defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtReade, J.
The plaintiff was a druggist in Enfield, N. 0., and the defendant insured him $1,200 on his stock of drugs and medicines in a one story building, &c., with a cpncur-rent insurance on the same by the Alexandria Insurance Company of $1,800. This was in 1874, and the same was annually renewed up to 1877, when the store was destroyed by fire. During these years and several transactions there-was £ ■ 'nod understanding and a becoming liberality between arties. Upon its coming to the attention of the plaintin--m he had not informed the defendant that he kept paints and oils, he informed the…
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