Bitting v. Home Insurance

This is an appeal from a “judgment on demurrer” entered in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, for the defendant, in an action on a fire insurance policy, issued by the Home Insurance Company of New York to John E. Bitting, insuring tobacco stored in a barn on the insured’s farm in Prince George’s County, Md.

Bitting filed in that court an amended declaration, in which, in substance, he stated that on October 17th, 1928, the deféndant issued to him a fire insurance policy insuring him to the extent of $2,000 against loss through the damage or destruction by fire of tobacco owned by…