Miller v. American Eagle Fire Insurance

The defendant insured a dwelling house owned by the plaintiff, and located on the South road of Poughkeepsie, on the main highway of the Albany Post road. The amount of the insurance was $6,000. There were three extensions, or renewals, of the policy, each covering a three-year period.. The premises were used as a tea room as well as dwelling house, and later, for a period of some months before the fire, a restaurant had been conducted on the premises under the title of “ Cedar Hill Farm.” The signs on the house called attention to “ Cedar Hill Farm’s Blue Plate Dinner.” As many as sixty in…