Beck v. Germania Insurance

This is an action on a policy of insurance for the sum of $2600, the amount specified therein as the value of a stock of merchandise and fixtures insured with defendant by plaintiff.

The defense is that the statement of loss furnished by plaintiff to defendant is false and untrue, and by reason thereof plaintiff has forfeited tlie insurance. Judgment was rendered for $1800. A motion was made for a new trial on various grounds, and upon plaintiff’s entering a remittnv for $800, the new trial was refused, and defendant appealed.

The clause of the policy relied on by appellant is in these words:…