Seals, Inc. v. Tioga County Grange Mutual Insurance

BECK, Judge:

This is an appeal from a judgment entered on a jury’s verdict for appellee-insurer in an assumpsit action to recover under a policy of fire insurance. The appeal presents the following three questions:

1. In an action by an insured-corporation under a fire insurance policy where the insurer raises the affirmative defense of arson by the President and sole shareholder of the insured, is evidence of the suicide of the President and sole shareholder ten days after the fire admissible as circumstantial evidence of arson?

*6102. In such an action, is evidence suggesting that ten days after…