Hinckley v. Germania Fire Insurance
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract upon a policy of insurance, in the form prescribed by the Pub. Sts. c. 119, § 139, against loss by fire, for one year from March 15, 1883. The amounts and the property insured were as follows: “ $500 on bowling alleys, balls, and pins; $300 on pool table, pool balls, and cues; $100 on saloon furniture and fixtures; $50 on stock in trade, chiefly cigars and ginger ale; all contained in the second story of Knapp’s frame building, situate on the east side of Main…
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Contract upon a policy of insurance, in the form prescribed by the Pub. Sts. c. 119, § 139, against loss by fire, for one year from March 15, 1883. The amounts and the property insured were as follows: “ $500 on bowling alleys, balls, and pins; $300 on pool table, pool balls, and cues; $100 on saloon furniture and fixtures; $50 on stock in trade, chiefly cigars and ginger ale; all contained in the second story of Knapp’s frame building, situate on the east side of Main Street, opposite Belmont Street, Brockton, Mass.” Trial in the Superior Court, before Aldrich, J., who reported the case for…
1Opinion of the CourtC. Allen, J.
The report does not state the grounds upon which the ruling rested, that the plaintiff was not entitled to recover. The defendant, in its brief, relies on various objections, which we have considered.
In the first place, the defendant suggests that there is certainly great doubt whether the license, under which the plaintiff was doing business on the day when the policy was dated and delivered, was of any validity, since this license ran to both brothers, Edwin R. Hinckley and Herbert A. Hinckley, though *44Herbert had ceased to have any interest in the place before the license was dated and…
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