Bone v. Detroit National Fire Insurance
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals, Nos. 81 and 82, Jan. T., 1918, by plaintiff and defendant, from judgment of C. P. Crawford Co., Sept. T., 1916, No. 96, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Max Bone and Max Bone, Use of D. E. Kelley, Trustee, v. Detroit National Fire Insurance Company of Detroit, Michigan. Assumpsit on a fire insurance policy. Before Prather, P. J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Verdict for plaintiff for $1,697.25 and judgment thereon. Defendant appealed.
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Appeals, Nos. 81 and 82, Jan. T., 1918, by plaintiff and defendant, from judgment of C. P. Crawford Co., Sept. T., 1916, No. 96, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Max Bone and Max Bone, Use of D. E. Kelley, Trustee, v. Detroit National Fire Insurance Company of Detroit, Michigan. Assumpsit on a fire insurance policy. Before Prather, P. J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Verdict for plaintiff for $1,697.25 and judgment thereon. Defendant appealed. Errors assigned, among others, were the charge of the court, various rulings on evidence and in refusing defendant’s motion…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion By
Mr. Justice Moschzisker,
The present suit was instituted upon two policies of insurance issued by defendant company, in certain proportions, upon “the four-story, frame, slate-roofed building occupied as a hotel, o-n Main street,......Cambridge Springs, Pa.,” and the “goods” contained therein. •Plaintiff, owner of the property in question, rented it to *557his son, Joe Bone; the latter had as a business partner, in the possession and management of the hotel, one J. M. Manheimer. This hotel was located upon a forty-acre tract of land; and, 400 feet distant from the site of the. in'sured…
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