Shindler v. Insurance Co. of North America

Opinion by

Baldeige, J.,

This appeal is from the action of the court below in directing the jury to find a verdict for the defendant in an action of assumpsit upon a fire insurance policy covering personal property up to $3,000 in the plaintiff’s dwelling house in Dover, Delaware.

There was no dispute that a fire occurred or that the loss amounted to $998.70.

The policy, dated July 14, 1932, contained provisions that it should “be void ......if the interest of the insured be other than unconditional and sole ownership ......or if the subject of insurance be personal property and be or become…