Bebee v. Hartford County Mutual Fire Insurance
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This action was brought by appeal from the county court to the superior court for New London county, and was tried at the term of the latter court holden in January, 1856. The plaintiff, in his declaration, claimed to recover of the defendants the sum of $1,475, upon their policy of insurance dated November 5th, 1856, for the loss of a dwelling-house and barn.
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This action was brought by appeal from the county court to the superior court for New London county, and was tried at the term of the latter court holden in January, 1856. The plaintiff, in his declaration, claimed to recover of the defendants the sum of $1,475, upon their policy of insurance dated November 5th, 1856, for the loss of a dwelling-house and barn. The defendants pleaded the general issue, with a notice setting forth that at the time the plaintiff applied for and obtained said policy of insurance, the premises were exposed to the hazard of incendiarism, and that fires had…
1Opinion of the CourtHinman, J.
This was an action on a policy of insurance against fire, in which the plaintiff recovered, and the defendants now move for a new trial, on the ground of errors in the rulings and charge of the court, and also on the ground that the verdict is against the weight of evidence in the case.
The first point of law relates to the charge in respect to the agency of Lay. Lay was the local agent of the defendants at Lyme, for the purpose of receiving applications for insurance, and for other purposes, and he testified that the officers of the company had told him that he must consider himself more the…
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