Sampson v. Security Insurance
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract on a policy of insurance against loss by fire “on . type and other printing materials, paper and sheets in process of printing, and printed and manuscript copy of their various directories and other publications, contained in the chambers of Rand, Avery and Company, in stone, brick and iron building No. 117 Franklin Street, Boston.”
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Contract on a policy of insurance against loss by fire “on . type and other printing materials, paper and sheets in process of printing, and printed and manuscript copy of their various directories and other publications, contained in the chambers of Rand, Avery and Company, in stone, brick and iron building No. 117 Franklin Street, Boston.” Trial in the Superior Court, before Colburn, J., who reported the case for the determination of this court, in substance as follows: The execution of the policy, and a loss by fire of like goods greater in amount than the sum named therein, was admitted;…
1Opinion of the CourtDevens, J.
The property insured was situated “in the chambers of Rand, Avery and Company, in stone, brick and iron building No. 117 Franklin Street, Boston.” The defendant contends that the only property insured is that found in those chambers which were in the John Ritchie building, which building formed a part of the Franklin Buildings, which were erected as one structure, and each part of which had entrances on Federal Street, upon the ground that No. 117 Franklin Street was a separate building from those portions of the Franklin Buildings which abutted alone on Federal Street. The words do not…
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