Dysart v. Colonial Fire Underwriters

This action comes here as a consolidation of eighteen actions at law brought by the plaintiff, based upon twenty-six policies of insurance issued by eighteen different insurance companies, to recover an aggregate of $72,500, claimed to be due for loss under the policies. The facts are long, very much involved, and, singularly, but little in dispute.. We shall give a general outline of what we consider the controlling facts necessary for an understanding of the case, and in doing so shall refer to the appellant Dysart as the plaintiff, the cross-appellant Maytown Mill Company as the mill…