Geiss v. Franklin Insurance

Geiss sued the Franklin Insurance Company to recover the amount of loss alleged to have resulted to him from the destruction of certain personal property, which had been insured against loss by fire, under a policy issued to the plaintiff by the above-named insurance company. By the terms of the policy the company stipulated, for a gross sum, to insure separate and distinct articles and kinds of property, all contained in the same building, for certain specific and distinct sums, the whole aggregating one thousand dollars. One of the articles covered by the policy was a soda fountain, which…