Thierolf v. Universal Fire Insurance
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks county: Of .January Term 1885, No. 173. Covenant, by Philip Thierolf against the Universal Fire Insurance Company on a policy of fire insurance to recover damages for loss sustained by plaintiff in the destruction of his property by fire. Plea, covenants performed, absque hoc.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks county: Of .January Term 1885, No. 173. Covenant, by Philip Thierolf against the Universal Fire Insurance Company on a policy of fire insurance to recover damages for loss sustained by plaintiff in the destruction of his property by fire. Plea, covenants performed, absque hoc. On the trial, before Yerkes, P. J., the following facts appeared: Thierolf, the plaintiff, upon the solicitation of the president of defendant company, agreed to take out a policy of insurance for $3500 upon his mill properties, said insurance to ho divided as follows:…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Paxson
*40This was an action of covenant upon a policy of insurance to recover for the loss of the insured property by fire. The insurance was upon a frame saw mill, $1682.03; on engine under saw mill, $900 ; on grain, flour and feed in grist mill, $551.25, and on fixed and movable machinery in grist mill, $1688.00. The property was destroyed by fire on September 3d, 1881. There was a total loss on the saw mill; the engine was badly damaged, but the loss could not be considered total; there was a total loss on the stock of grain with the exception of two bags of wheat, and the loss apjoears to have…
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