Legal Opinion
Perry v. Mechanics' Mutual Ins.
District Court, D. Rhode Island
Decided March 11, 1882PublishedCited by 2 opinions
At Law.
1Opinion of the Court
Colt, D. J.
This is an action upon a policy of fire insurance, and the case was heard by the court, jury trial having been waived. The policy insures Bllathea Perry and A. J. Perry in the sum of $500 on a barn upon their farm in Barrington, Rhode Island. It is dated January 21,1880, and runs five years. It is in evidence that the fire occurred September 24, 1880, and that the building was totally destroyed. It further appears from the testimony that in 1877, when the title to the whole farm was in Bllathea Perry, she and her husband, John A. Perry, made a verbal agreement with their son,…
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