Greenberg v. Aetna Insurance

Opinion by

Mb. Justice Eagen,

This is an action instituted by the insured on two separate fire insurance policies to recover the loss resulting from a fire in a shopping center where he owned and operated a drug store. At trial the jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, and from the judgment entered thereon the defendants appeal.

In their answers to the complaint, the defendant-insurance companies denied liability on the contracts because the fire “was the result of incendiarism, a fact well known to the plaintiff who participated therein, and . . . such participation and failure to…