Milkman v. United Mutual Insurance

The defendant petitions for a new trial, upon the grounds of erroneous rulings and of verdict against the evidence.

A policy of insurance was issued by the defendant to the plaintiff, January 10, 1896, upon a stock of goods in a store, with a special provision in the policy “ to maintain the automatic sprinkler equipments, now' in use, in full working order during the continuance of this policy.”

The principal questions which have been argued relate to the authority of the broker to insert this clause and the liability under it, but it is not necessary to consider these questions ; because,…