Legal Opinion
Chauser v. Niagara Fire Insurance
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided December 9, 1937PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJennings, J.
The plaintiff recovered a verdict for the burning of a building upon which the defendant had issued a fire insurance policy. The defendant has appealed from the denial of the motion to set that verdict aside and from the judgment entered upon it. All questions raised in the latter appeal are involved in that taken from the refusal to set the verdict aside and will be discussed in connection with it. The jury might reasonably have found the following facts:
The plaintiff had owned the property at 138 East Broadway, Myrtle Beach, Milford, at various times and just prior to October, 1931,…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- Hough v. City Fire InsuranceSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1860
- MacKay v. Aetna Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1934
- Hartford Fire Insurance v. KeatingCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1897
- Ward v. WardSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1890
- Fox v. ShanleySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1920
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3Cited by10 opinions
- Giuseppe Lomartira, A.K.A. v. American Automobile Insurance Company, Giuseppe Lomartira, A.K.A. v. Queen Insurance Company of America, Dfendant-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1967
- Contractors Realty Co. v. Insurance Co. of North AmericaDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1979
- Hope v. CavalloSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1972
- Rego v. Connecticut Insurance Placement FacilitySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1991
- Zieba v. Middlesex Mutual Assurance Co.District Court, D. Connecticut · 1982
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