Reed v. Equitable Fire & Marine Insurance

The plaintiff sues upon a fire insurance policy dated January 10, 1891, for the sum of $1,300. The house and barn covered by the policy were totally destroyed by fire November 5, 1891. The defendant’s second plea sets up a condi tion that the policy should be void, except as to the interest of the mortgagee of the premises, in case the insured had or should after-wards have other insurance on said property without the assent of the defendant company in writing or in print, and avers that there was other insurance on said property, at the date of the policy, in the Attleboro Mutual Eire…