Liebenstein v. Baltic Fire Insurance
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Erastus S. Williams, Judge, presiding. This was an action of assumpsit, brought by the appellant against appellee, in the court below, on a policy of insurance against loss or damage from fire, in the sum of $1,250. The cause was tried by the court, who found for the defendant, whereupon an appeal was taken to this court. The further facts in this case are fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lawrence
The appellant, being engaged in the manufacture of chairs, effected an insurance with the appellee on property described in the policy as “ chair lumber, and such other stock as is usually used in a chair manufactory, contained in their chair factory, situated on Superior street, between Kingsbury and Boberts streets, Chicago, Illinois.” The establishment consisted of a main building, in which about thirty men were employed, and which also contained the machinery, and an engine house about twenty feet square, standing ten feet in the rear of the main building and connected with it by a…
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