Bellman v. Home Insurance Co.

It is fundamental that an insured who' deliberately sets fire to the insured property cannot recover on a policy of fire insurance. To permit a recovery under such circumstances would reward crime and shock the most fundamental notions of justice. To permit a recovery by either the partnership, or. the unoffending partner upon a policy of insurance issued to a partnership insuring partnership property where one of the partners has wilfully fired the insured property, is likewise repugnant to an intuitive sense of justice. Much discussion and ingenious argument is indulged by plaintiffs’…