Charles Dowd Box Co. Inc. v. Fireman's Fund Ins. Co.

This is an action of contract against thirty-nine insurance companies to recover, under sixty-one insurance policies, damages resulting from a fire on the plaintiffs’ 1 premises on July 11, 1960, and a “rekindling” of that fire on July 16, 1960. The parties stipulated that the “question of liability'’ be submitted to the jury, and that the question of damages be reserved for subsequent hearings subject to the order of the trial judge. The following questions were submitted to the jury: “Are the defendants named in Counts 1 through 24 and Counts 27 through 61 liable to the plaintiff [s] ?” and…