Oakes v. Franklin Fire Insurance

These several actions were tried together and involve with one exception the same questions. They were brought under Sec. 38, Chap.' 87, R. S., to recover the amount due under certain policies of insurance issued by the several companies named as defendants.

The defendant in each suit pleaded the general issue and also in a brief statement set up the defenses that the plaintiff had made certain false and fraudulent statements of, overvaluation in her written certificate of her loss following a fire, and that the amount of her loss had been submitted to a reference in accordance with *363the…