President & Directors of the Firemen's Insurance v. Floss

The two appeals, though in separate records, by and •against the same parties, were argued together, and they will be considered together, as the records in both cases present substantially the same state of facts, and upon which the same questions were raised in the Court below.

The plaintiffs below, the appellees here, constituting a partnership under the name of S. W. Eloss & Co., composed of Simon W. Eloss, Henry M. Adler and Benjamin ■Cohen, and being the holders of' two policies of fire insurance, issued by the defendants, the present appellants, sued the latter in two several actions of…