Walz v. Peninsular Fire Insurance

This action is on a $25,000 fire insurance policy issued to Sarah Goffe by defendant. She owned a plant in Ann Arbor in which, under the name of Ann Arbor Stamping & Metal Company, she was principally engaged in the purchase and sale of sheet metal scrap and in the manufacture therefrom and the sale of small stampings, such as automobile license plates, frying pans, shovels, hoes, spades, etc. A fire occurred in the plant between 11 and 12 o’clock in the night of December 31, 1920. She had ordinary fire insurance amounting to $375,000, and use and occupation insurance to the amount of…