Boon v. Ætna Insurance
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Assumpsit on a policy of fire insurance, brought to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Connecticut, and tried, on an issue closed to the court, before Wood-ruff, Circuit Judge, and Shipman, District Judge, at the April term, 1874. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtWoodruff, J.
The facts in this case are not doubtful nor in dispute. The action is brought to recover from the defendant the amount of an insurance against loss by fire upon the goods of the plaintiffs in their store in Glasgow, Missouri, in the sum of six thousand dollars. It is founded on a policy executed by the defendant, dated September 2d, 1864, and the goods were destroyed by fire on the 15th day of October, 1864, within the term of the insurance. The loss was sufficiently great to entitle the plaintiffs to recover, if the defendant is liable at all, the whole sum insured. The plaintiffs have…
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