School District No. 6 v. Ætna Ins.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On Exceptions. Assumpsit upon a policy of insurance against fire. A few years prior to March, 1860, school districts numbered three and six, in Dresden, united under the statute and formed the plaintiff district, when it became designated as school district number six.
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On Exceptions. Assumpsit upon a policy of insurance against fire. A few years prior to March, 1860, school districts numbered three and six, in Dresden, united under the statute and formed the plaintiff district, when it became designated as school district number six. On March 1,1860, this school district effected a policy of insurance of $1000, for the term of one year, with the defendants, upon its school-house, built after the formation of the district and known as the new school-house. April 1, 1861, the policy was renewed for one year, no new representation having been made. But, at a…
1Opinion of the CourtAppletoN, C. J.
The school district number six, composed of the previously existing school districts number three and number six, effected a policy on their school-house with the defendant corporation, dated March 1, 1860, for the, term of one year.
At a legal meeting of this district on the fourth of June, 1860, it was voted to sell the school-house, and a committee was appointed for that purpose, by whom a sale was made on 19th July, 1860, and the purchasers immediately took possession of the building and removed the same to a lot owned by them.
On the first of April, 1861, the plaintiffs effected a renewal…
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