Tiefenthal v. Citizens' Mutual Fire Insurance

This action is upon a policy of insurance issued by defendants August 27, 1878, to recover damages for loss by fire. The property was destroyed on the 28th day of August, 1879, and consisted of barns, sheds, hay, grain, carriages, harness and farm implements claimed to be of the value of $2200.

Defendant contested the claim of the plaintiffs upon the following grounds: First, they falsely represented in their application for insurance that they owned the property insured; second, they falsely represented the amount of incumbrance thereon, and upon the farm; third, they fraudulently concealed…