Hoffman v. Insurance Companies

Sellers Hoffman obtained fire insurance from each of defendant companies upon his cotton-mills, machinery, and stock, situated in Kelleyville, Penn. A loss by fire has occurred, *737and he brings these several suits to recover from each of defendants a proportion of the loss.

The property covered is described in an exhibit attached to each policy, and consists of twenty-one separate and distinct parcels, having extended opposite each item, in figures, a sum, presumably the estimated valuation of each item. The aggregate of these several values is $90,000. The total loss by fire is admitted to be…