Smith v. Bowditch Mutual Fire Insurance
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
The facts of this case, so far as they are necessary to an understanding of the point, upon which it was decided, are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtMetcalf, J.
This is an action on a policy óf insurance, dated March 2d, 1847, whereby the defendants caused Carpenter and Dana to be insured, for the sum of $2500, against loss by fire, on their print-works and machinery in Attleborough. The insurance was for four "years, and was made subject to the provisions and conditions of the defendants’ charter and by-laws. And the loss, if any should occur, was made “ payable to Joseph Smith of Pawtucket,” who brings this action for a loss alleged and admitted to have occurred on the 28th of March, 1848.
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