Commercial Insurance v. Mehlman

This was an action of assumpsit, on two policies of insurance, brought by John C. Mehlman, against the Commercial Insurance Company, in the Superior Court of Chicago, at the April term thereof, 1866.

One of the policies was dated September 11, 1865, for six hundred dollars, upon the defendant’s “ one story frame building,” the other dated 9th of October, 1865, for one thousand dollars, “upon his stock of groceries and provisions,” and four hundred dollars “ upon his stock of meat.”

Both policies contained this condition:

“ This policy shall be vitiated by keeping gunpowder, saltpetre, fireworks,…