Wood v. First National Fire Insurance
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Action upon insurance policy; from city court of Savannah— Judge Freeman. March 17, 1917. On the 13th of August, 1915, the First National Fire Insurance Company, hereafter called the defendant, issued to Isidore Woods, hereafter called the plaintiff, a policy of insurance for the sum of $4,000, on a stock of wines, liquors, beers, cordials, and such other merchandise not more hazardous, “while contained in a brick, metal-roof building occupied for mercantile purposes,”…
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Action upon insurance policy; from city court of Savannah— Judge Freeman. March 17, 1917. On the 13th of August, 1915, the First National Fire Insurance Company, hereafter called the defendant, issued to Isidore Woods, hereafter called the plaintiff, a policy of insurance for the sum of $4,000, on a stock of wines, liquors, beers, cordials, and such other merchandise not more hazardous, “while contained in a brick, metal-roof building occupied for mercantile purposes,” situated in Savannah, Georgia. On the 12th of November, 1915, this building, together with the liquors, were destroyed by…
1Opinion of the CourtJenkins, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.) While we think the stipulations contained in the policy of insurance attached to the petition clearly indicate that the insured liquors were kept by the plaintiff for the purpose of illegal sale, still, in order to make out a violation of the prohibition law of 1907 (Penal Code of 1910, § 426), it is wholly unnecessary to show for what-purpose the intoxicants were kept at the place of business, the criminal act in such a case being merely the keeping on hand of such_liquors at such a place. Cohen v. State, 7 Ga. App. 5 (65 S. E. 1096). Therefore the only…
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