Franklin Fire Insurance v. Updegraff
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Lycoming county. This was an action of covenant brought by Abraham Updegraff, A. A. Winegárdner, and Wm. Updegraff, partners doing business as Updegraff, Winegárdner & Co., for the use of J. PI. Fulmer & Co., against the Franklin Fire Insurance Company.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Lycoming county. This was an action of covenant brought by Abraham Updegraff, A. A. Winegárdner, and Wm. Updegraff, partners doing business as Updegraff, Winegárdner & Co., for the use of J. PI. Fulmer & Co., against the Franklin Fire Insurance Company. The material facts of the case are as follows : — On the 24th day of March 1853, the Franklin Fire Insurance Company of Philadelphia issued their policy of insurance for one year to Updegraff, Winegárdner & Co., insuring $10,000 on “ merchandise, such as is usually kept in country stores, contained in a three story…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Strong, J.
This was an action of covenant upon a policy of insurance, and the defendants in the court below have brought the record here, assigning seven errors. None of the assignments, however, are properly made. They aver that the court erred in their answers to each of the six points submitted, but they do not specify how the court erred, or in what the alleged mistakes consisted. This mode of assigning errors is altogether insufficient. It would be at common law, and it is if possible even more so under the rules of this court. It compels us to…
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