Aurora Fire Insurance v. Eddy

This was an action of assumpsit, on a policy of insurance of four thousand dollars on a three story flax factory, brought by James W. Eddy, against the Aurora Fire Insurance Company, and which resulted in a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for three thousand five hundred dollars.

To reverse this judgment the defendants have appealed to this court, and several points are made, but one of which we deem important to notice.

The policy contains this clause:

“ It is expressly agreed, that the assured is to keep eight buckets filled with water on the first floor where the machinery is run, and…