Grandin v. Rochester German Insurance
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Warren county: Of January Term, 1884, No. 403. Assumpsit, on a policy of fire insurance, by “J. L, Grandin, who sues for himself as well as in trust for others ” against the Rochester German Insurance Company, of Rochester N. Y., to recover for a loss on certain oil, destroyed by fire in tbe Tidioute and Titusville Pipe Line, Limited.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Warren county: Of January Term, 1884, No. 403. Assumpsit, on a policy of fire insurance, by “J. L, Grandin, who sues for himself as well as in trust for others ” against the Rochester German Insurance Company, of Rochester N. Y., to recover for a loss on certain oil, destroyed by fire in tbe Tidioute and Titusville Pipe Line, Limited. After issue joined the parties submitted the following facts, in the nature of a case stated, for the opinion of the Court, viz:— I. On May 9, 1879, E. B. Grandin, W. J. Grandin, Samuel Grandin, A. F. Neyhart and M. T.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice PaxsoN
delivered the opinion of the court, June 9, 1884.. This case is not free from difficulty. The suit was brought in the court below upon a policy of insurance issued by the .defendant company to the plaintiff to recover for a loss by fire upon petroleum burned in the Tidioute and Titusville Pipe Line, at the city of Titusville, in June, 1880. The insurance was for “ 2,500 on petroleum, his own or held by him in trust .for others, or sold but not delivered, while in custody of the Tidioute and Titusville Pipe Line Limited ” &c. Among the numerous clauses of forfeiture enumerated in the printed…
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