Dows v. Faneuil Hall Insurance

These actions are brought upon three policies of insurance, each of which insures the plaintiff against loss or damage by fire “ on his stock in trade as an apothecary, contained in brick building situate 525 Washington Street corner of LaGrange Street, Boston.”

The evidence at the trial tended to show that, by a sudden combustion of inflammable gas, brought into contact with some burning substance, an explosion, accompanied by a flash of light and a loud report, took place in one of the upper stories of the building, which M as of such force as to lift up the roof over the *347rear part of the…