Liverpool & Loudon & Globe Insurance v. Tillis
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Geneva. Tried before the Hon. JohN R. TysoN. • This was an action brought by the appellee, R. Tillis, against the appellant, the Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance Company, and counted upon an insurance policy, issued by the defendant. The complaint declares upon a policy of insurance issued by defendant to Chancey & Newsome, on September 28, 1892, on a stock of goods, alleged to have been burned October 6, thereafter.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Geneva. Tried before the Hon. JohN R. TysoN. • This was an action brought by the appellee, R. Tillis, against the appellant, the Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance Company, and counted upon an insurance policy, issued by the defendant. The complaint declares upon a policy of insurance issued by defendant to Chancey & Newsome, on September 28, 1892, on a stock of goods, alleged to have been burned October 6, thereafter. The complaint avers a transfer of the policy to plaintiff. To this complaint various pleas were filed. They set up substantially the…
1Opinion of the CourtColeman, J.
The appellee, Tillis, sued upon a fire policy of insurance to recover for the loss sustained, by the burning of a storehouse and a stock of merchandise. The total insurance was for eleven hundred dollars, nine hundred of which was placed upon the merchandise, and two hundred, upon the building. The defendant pleaded in defense several pleas, each of which averred a breach of some covenant of the assured contained in the policy.
The sixth plea averred a breach of what is denominated the “Iron Safe Clause” of the policy, by which the assured covenanted to keep a set of books, showing pmr-chases…
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