Gustin v. Concordia Fire Insurance

This is an action on a policy of fire insurance whereby the personal .property of the plaintiff, situated in a certain brick building, was insured against loss by fire.

It is insisted by defendant that the petition fails to state a cause of action and is therefore fatally defective; in that it does not allege the value of the property destroyed. It is no doubt true that a petition should, in plain terms, state the value of the property destroyed. We do not understand this to be denied by counsel for plaintiff. But it is contended that there is a defective allegation of value which must now be…