Westchester Fire Ins. Co. v. Fitzpatrick

WOOLLEY, Circuit Judge.

This is an action on a policy of fire insurance issued by the defendant company in favor of the plaintiff, its local agent at Elizabeth, New Jersey, in the sum of $3,500 on an old frame ice house converted into a “two-home” dwelling, situate on an alley and occupied by colored people, which together with the land on which it stood had shortly before the fire been purchased by the insured for $2,800. The plaintiff had a verdict for $2,080; the defendant sued out this writ of error.

Continuing to speak of the parties as they stand on the record, the defendant states that…