Newark Fire Ins. Co. v. Martineau

This is a suit on a fire insurance eon-tract. The house covered by this insurance contract was totally destroyed by fire thirty-five days after the policy was written. The jury returned a verdict against the insurance company for the face of the policy plus interest from the date of fire.

Martineau, defendant-in-error, was a tombstone salesman. He sold a tombstone to one Street for $1,050. Street did not have the necessary cash to pay for this purchase. Street then traded Martineau a small house in the outskirts of Johnson City for this tombstone. Martineau, likewise needing money, arranged…