Kupfersmith v. Delaware Insurance

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Gummere, Chief Justice.

This suit was brought upon a policy of insurance for $1,000, issued by the defendant company to the plaintiff, upon a frame building owned by him, and which, the declaration alleged, was destroyed by fire on the 16th day of February, 1909. The trial resulted in the direction of a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for the full amount of the insurance, with interest thereon from the date upon which the defendant was required to pay losses under the terms of the policy. The propriety of this judicial action is now before us for…