Malley v. Atlantic Fire & Marine Insurance
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action upon a policy of fire insurance on a stock of merchandise; brought to the Superior Court. The following facts were found by the court. * On the 12th day of May, 1881, the defendant corporation, in consideration of twenty-five dollars paid to it by the plaintiff, issued to him a policy of insurance against fire on a stock of goods owned by him; the first clause of the policy being as follows:— “ By this policy of insurance the Atlantic Fire and Marine Insurance Co.,…
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Action upon a policy of fire insurance on a stock of merchandise; brought to the Superior Court. The following facts were found by the court. * On the 12th day of May, 1881, the defendant corporation, in consideration of twenty-five dollars paid to it by the plaintiff, issued to him a policy of insurance against fire on a stock of goods owned by him; the first clause of the policy being as follows:— “ By this policy of insurance the Atlantic Fire and Marine Insurance Co., Providence, R. I., in consideration of twenty-five dollars to them paid by the assured hereinafter named, the receipt…
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
This is an action upon a policy of insurance against loss by fire. On the 12th day of May, 1881, the defendant executed and delivered to the plaintiff a policy of insurance against loss by fire, upon his stock of merchandise, for the sum of $2,500, to continue in force one year from that date. It provided that “if the interest of the assured in the property be any other than the entire, unconditional, sole ownership of the property, for the use and benefit of the assured, * * it must be so represented to the company and so expressed in the written part of this policy; otherwise the policy…
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