Smith v. City Insurance

Baldrige, P. J.,

Morris Freedman was, on Oct. 13, 1921, the owner of a building used and occupied as a store and lodging-house and located in East Altoona. On the date aforesaid, the building and practically all its contents were destroyed by fire. Subsequent thereto, Morris Freedman was adjudged a bankrupt and E. W. Smith appointed his trustee. Prior to the date of the fire, Freedman had taken out eleven policies of insurance covering the building and its contents, which he alleges were in force on the day of the fire, and made demand upon the insurance companies for the pay*759ment of his…