Continental Insurance v. Jachnichen

Jachnichen sued the Continental Insurance Company upon a policy of insurance, to recover the value of a barn and its contents, which the complaint alleged were covered by the policy, and which were alleged to have been destroyed by a fire, of unknown origin, in September, 1884.

Among other defences, the company answered that the assured had himself purposely burned the property witl^ the intent to defraud the insurance company.

The plaintiff below recovered. The only question presented by the record, which, in view of the defective condition of the bill of exceptions purporting to contain the…