Continental Insurance v. Wilson

Opinion by

StraNG, C.:

March 8, 1887, the plaintiff in error issued its policy of insurance to the defendant in error, promising therein to indemnify him against loss or damage by cyclone in the sum of $1,300, upon his stone dwelling-house and household effects therein. April 21, 1887, the neighborhood of the defendant in error was visited by a heavy wind storm, cyclonic in its character, which struck and severely wrecked his house, and also destroyed some of his household goods therein, resulting in a loss to him, as he alleges, of $1,040 — $1,000 on his dwelling-house and $40 on his goods. On…