Grand Pacific Hotel Co. v. Michigan Commercial Insurance

Mr. Presiding Justice Smith

delivered the opinion of the court.

The question in controversy is whether the policy sued on covers not only the loss on the use and occupancy of the hotel to the time when the building and equipment therein could, with ordinary diligence and dispatch, be rebuilt, repaired or replaced, but also, as contended by appellant, a termination of the lease in consequence of the .fire as one of the risks insured and assumed by appellee.

The primary and controlling question in the solution of the controversy then is, what does the language in this contract of insurance mean?

The…