Regnier v. Louisiana State Marine & Fire Insurance
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Eastern Dist. APPEAL PROM THE PARISH COURT, FOR THE PARISH AND CITY OF .NEW-ORLEANS. This is an action on a policy of insurance. The pleadings and facts of this case are so fully stated in the opinion and judgment pronounced by the parish judge, that- his statement is given as a full report of the case.
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Eastern Dist. APPEAL PROM THE PARISH COURT, FOR THE PARISH AND CITY OF .NEW-ORLEANS. This is an action on a policy of insurance. The pleadings and facts of this case are so fully stated in the opinion and judgment pronounced by the parish judge, that- his statement is given as a full report of the case. “The plaintiff claims from the defendants, a sum of two thousand three hundred and seventy-nine dollars, which he alleges to be the value of goods, merchandize, counters, glass cases and shop fixtures, destroyed by fire, and which formed a part of certain property insured against fire by the…
1Opinion of the CourtBullard, J.
The defendants resist the claim on the part of the plaintiff, to be indemnified for a loss sustained by fire, on the allegation, that the trifling loss really sustained, was fraudulent, and occasioned by the fraud or gross negligence of the assured.
The insurance was upon cloths, ready made clothing, and a tailor’s stock in trade, etc., to the amount of about four thousand four hundred dollars, and the plaintiff sues for two thousand three hundred and seventy-nine dollars and thirty-four and a half cents, the amount of the loss alleged to have been sustained by him.
It is admitted on all hands,…
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