Connecticut Fire Insurance v. W. H. Roberts Lumber Co.

In this case the judgment complained of in favor of the appellee, plaintiff in the court below, against appellant, defendant in the court below, was obtained upon a fire insurance policy, referred to in the record as a “floating policy,” being what is designated by text-writers on the subject as an open, floating, or blanket policy, and the judgment was for the amount of the plaintiff’s expected profits in certain lumber, which lumber was covered by the policy.

There are four assignments of error, but in the view we take of the case we need consider only one inquiry, and that is—(1) Did the…