Greenlaw v. Aroostook County Patrons Mutual Fire Insurance
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Action on the case to recover upon two policies of insurance issued by defendant company. Defendant filed plea of general issue; also brief statement. At close of evidence case was reported to Law Court upon certain agreed statements and stipulations. Judgment in accordance with opinion. Case stated in opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtDunn, J.
As its name suggests, and the record of this case evinces, the Aroostook County Patrons Mutual Fire Insurance Company is a domestic mutual fire insurance company. In other words, it is an aggregation of persons, endowed by the State of Maine with the attri- ■ butes of corporate existence, and in that manner providing 'a mutual basis method, by which the associated individuals help to bear the burden of pecuniary loss incident to the destruction, by the happening of the peril of fire, of the property of one of their number. Fire insurance thus conducted, means that if, during a prescribed…
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