Williams v. Mannheim Insurance
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract upon a policy of insurance for loss suffered by the plaintiffs by reason of damage by a flood to wool alleged to have been covered by the policy. Writ dated March 3, 1908. In the Superior Court the action was heard by Hitchcock, J., without a jury, upon an agreed statement of facts and the testimony of two witnesses. Material facts are described in the opinion. At the close of the evidence, the defendant moved for a finding in its favor.
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Contract upon a policy of insurance for loss suffered by the plaintiffs by reason of damage by a flood to wool alleged to have been covered by the policy. Writ dated March 3, 1908. In the Superior Court the action was heard by Hitchcock, J., without a jury, upon an agreed statement of facts and the testimony of two witnesses. Material facts are described in the opinion. At the close of the evidence, the defendant moved for a finding in its favor. The judge found for the plaintiffs in the sum of $10,431.63; and the defendant alleged exceptions, which, after the death of Hitchcock, J., were…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
This is an action upon a contract of insurance. The plaintiffs are wool merchants in Boston. The material facts as to the method of business, custom of the trade, the initial purchases of wool in California, the intention of the plaintiffs as buyers ultimately to send it to Boston, its carriage to scouring mill and warehouses in Stockton in California, the processes to which it there was subjected, and its damage while in mill and warehouses by flood, are the same as in Koshland v. Columbia Ins. Co. ante, 467, just decided. They are set out at length in the opinion in that case, to which…
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