Prudential Fire Insurance Co. v. Alley
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Wise county, in an action of assumpsit. Judgment for the plaintiff. Defendant assigns error. This was an action of assumpsit on a fire insurance policy to recover for a total loss of a store-house and stock of goods destroyed by fire. After all' the evidence was in, the defendant demurred to the evidence, and the plaintiff joined in the demurrer, and the court rendered a judgment thereon for the plaintiff.
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Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Wise county, in an action of assumpsit. Judgment for the plaintiff. Defendant assigns error. This was an action of assumpsit on a fire insurance policy to recover for a total loss of a store-house and stock of goods destroyed by fire. After all' the evidence was in, the defendant demurred to the evidence, and the plaintiff joined in the demurrer, and the court rendered a judgment thereon for the plaintiff. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court except as to the proof of loss. The proof of loss was made in the form given below, and…
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
This action was instituted to recover the amount alleged to be due upon a fire insurance policy issued by the Prudential Fire Insurance Company covering such losses as might be sustained by the insured, J. J. Alley, in consequence of the destruction by fire of his store-house and a stock of goods in the town of Appalachia.
Immediately prior to the time the policy sued on was issued, the insured was doing business as a merchant in Gate City, in Scott county, but was about to remove his stock of goods into a store-house in Appalachia, in Wise county. Before moving the stock of goods from Gate…
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