Calnon v. Fidelity Phenix Fire Ins.

Plaintiff brought this action on two policies of fire insurance, each for $4,000, issued by the defendant, covering plaintiff’s grain and stock food in plaintiff’s elevator building at Alda, Nebraska, which was destroyed by fire on September 22, 1921.

Plaintiff alleged that at the time of the fire there was. in the elevator building 13,750 bushels of grain and 3 barrels of stock food, of the total value of $9,419; that of this grain 7,250 bushels was wheat, of the value of $1.02 a bushel; 800 bushels, barley; 4,500 bushels, corn; and 1,200 bushels, oats. Defendant admitted the issuance of the…