Davidson v. Phoenix Ins.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern California
This was a suit on the equity side of the court, to reform a policy of insurance, effected by the Phoenix Insurance Company, of Hartford, Connecticut, upon property of plaintiff [Mayer Davidson], and to compel the payment of the amount for which the policy was issued. It was heard on demurrer to the bill at the June term of 1867.
1Opinion of the Court
FIELD, Circuit Justice.
The bill alleges in substance, that on the nineteenth of September, 1864, in consideration of'the payment of a premium of $196, the defendant, by its authorized agents, executed and delivered to the plaintiff a policy of insurance against loss by fire, to the amount of $7,500, upon a building and property contained in the building belonging to him at Mokelumne Hill, in this state; that on the twenty-sixth of February, 1865, before the expiration of the policy, the building and contents were destroyed by fire; that the plaintiff, within the time required, gave the…
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