Powers Dry Goods Co. v. Imperial Fire Ins.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant Imperial Fire Insurance Company of London from an order of the district court of Eamsey county, Cornish, J., made June 22, 1891, refusing a new trial.
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Appeal by defendant Imperial Fire Insurance Company of London from an order of the district court of Eamsey county, Cornish, J., made June 22, 1891, refusing a new trial. Plaintiff, Powers Dry Goods Company, was on November 27,1890, at St. Paul, Minn., a business corporation dealing in dry goods at wholesale, and had on that day in its building, on Fourth street, merchandise of the value of $345,275.45. It had insurance against fire on this stock to the amount of $387,000, distributed among a great number of insurance companies. The defendant was one of these, and had insured plaintiff $5,000…
1Opinion of the CourtDickinson, J.
The property for the loss of which a recovery is sought on the defendant’s policy of insurance consisted of a wholesale stock of dry goods, contained in two contiguous buildings in the city of St. Paul, one of which is distinguished as the “three-story building.” Two grounds of defense are to be considered. The first is that, as to the goods contained on the third floor of the three-story building, the plaintiff did not comply with the express terms of the policy, which required the insured, in case of loss, to “make a complete inventory of the same, stating the quantity and cost of each…
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