Sebring v. Globe & Rutgers Fire Insurance

These are plaintiff’s motions for judgment on the pleadings, or, in the alternative, to strike out parts of the answers. Defendants claim that the motions have been made and decided before.

When plaintiff’s barn burned, it was covered by insurance in five companies; all refused to pay, whereupon he sued each in a separate action; they appeared by the same attorney and filed identical answers. Plaintiff then moved for summary judgment under rules 113 and 114 of the Rules of Civil Practice on the ground “ that there is no defense to the action and that the said answer so interposed is a sham ”…