Home Insurance v. Davis
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
June 7th 1881. Before Sharswood, C. J., Meecur, Gordon, Paxson, Trunket, Sterrett and Green, JJ. Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Clinton county: Of May Term 1881, No. 167. Debt, by Thomas Davis, against the Home Insurance Co. of the City of New York, on a policy of fire insurance.
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June 7th 1881. Before Sharswood, C. J., Meecur, Gordon, Paxson, Trunket, Sterrett and Green, JJ. Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Clinton county: Of May Term 1881, No. 167. Debt, by Thomas Davis, against the Home Insurance Co. of the City of New York, on a policy of fire insurance. On the trial, before Orvis, A. L. J., the following facts appeared : — On July 31st 1877, Thomas Davis obtained, through Chapman & O’Connor, local agents of the insurance company defendant, a policy of insurance of $1,000 upon his dwelling-house and contents, situated in Lockhaven, Pennsylvania. The policy…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gordon
By a policy dated on the 31st of July 1877, the defendant below, plaintiff in error, insured the dwelling-house of Thomas Davis, the plaintiff below, in the sum of $900, and his furniture and clothes, in the south end of the same, in the further sum of $100. On the 7th day of J uly 1878, there was a total loss of this property by fire. At the instance of the assured, as the jury have found, notice of the loss was immediately forwarded to the home office, by the resident agent of the company, through whom the insurance, had been effected. So far as the house was concerned, the loss being…
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