Wolf v. Hartford Fire Insurance

This is an action on a contract of fire insurance, the unusual and peculiar nature of which, as well as the circumstances surrounding the controversy, will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

Owing to these matters, the trial court, on motion of defendant and over the objections of plaintiffs, regarded the case as having been converted into equity by the defenses raised, and tried it as an equity case, denying plaintiffs’ right to a jury.

After hearing the case, the chancellor, by his refusal of Declaration E (the only one of plaintiff’s five declarations that was refused), held that…