Dolliver v. Granite State Fire Insurance
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On report. This is an action on two fire insurance policies, both issued by the defendant corporation, one dated December 8, 1909, for the term of three years and to expire December 8, 1912, on a certain one and one-half story frame dwelling house and additions thereto, including foundations, gas and water pipes and stationery heating apparatus therein, situate on the east side of Oak Point Road in Trenton, Maine.
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On report. This is an action on two fire insurance policies, both issued by the defendant corporation, one dated December 8, 1909, for the term of three years and to expire December 8, 1912, on a certain one and one-half story frame dwelling house and additions thereto, including foundations, gas and water pipes and stationery heating apparatus therein, situate on the east side of Oak Point Road in Trenton, Maine. The other policy is dated December 13, 1911, and expires December 13, 1914, on a certain frame barn situate on the east side of Goose Cove Road in Trenton, Maine, and a certain…
1Opinion of the CourtCornish, J.
Several questions are raised in defense to this action on two fire insurance policies, but it is necessary for this court to consider only one, namely, the legal effect of the breach of contract as to occupancy.
The policies were dated respectively December 8, 1909, and December 13, 1911, were issued for a term of three years, and covered farm buildings in the town of Trenton. When the first policy was issued the plaintiff was living with his family upon the premises and making his home there. In June, 1910, he moved with his family to Bar Harbor and has since resided in that town but he…
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