Empire State Insurance Co. of Watertown v. Guerriero

Mary Guerriero, as plaintiff, appellee here, sued the three appellants jointly on three policies of fire insurance, in standard form, covering her property on Forrest Street in Baltimore. From a judgment in favor of the appellee the appellants appeal to this Court.

Each policy contained an extended provision to cover, among other things, “explosions.” The trial judge in his charge to the jury gave the following definition of “explosion,” to which no exception was taken by any of the parties: “Explosion is to be understood in the sense that it is used by ordinary men and not in its scientific…