Clayburgh v. Agric. Ins. Co. of Watertown
California Supreme Court
The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. Goodfellow & Eells, T. C. Coogan, and H. B. M. Miller, for Appellant.
1Opinion of the CourtSloss, J.
Action to recover six thousand dollars on a policy of fire insurance, covering a building in the city of San Francisco. Upon a trial before a jury, the plaintiff recovered a verdict for the amount claimed. The defendant appeals from the judgment entered upon the verdict, and from an order denying its motion for a new trial.
There was no denial of the fact that the insured building had, on the nineteenth day of April, 1906, been totally destroyed by fire, and that by its destruction plaintiff had suffered damage' to an amount exceeding his insurance. The only defense was that, on the eighteenth…
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