Weidert v. State Insurance Co.
Oregon Supreme Court
Appeal from Umatilla county: Jas. A. Fee, judge. On tiie twenty-eighth, day of March, 1888, the defendant insured the plaintiff’s house and certain household goods therein against loss or damage by fire. On the ninth of July of the same year said house and goods were -destroyed by fire, and this action is brought to-racover the amount of such policy, which is $350. The plaintiff-had judgment-for tbe full amount claimed, from which this appeal is taken.
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Appeal from Umatilla county: Jas. A. Fee, judge. On tiie twenty-eighth, day of March, 1888, the defendant insured the plaintiff’s house and certain household goods therein against loss or damage by fire. On the ninth of July of the same year said house and goods were -destroyed by fire, and this action is brought to-racover the amount of such policy, which is $350. The plaintiff-had judgment-for tbe full amount claimed, from which this appeal is taken. The complaint is in the usual form in such cases. On the subject of the loss and proof thereof it has this averment: “That on the ninth day of…
1Opinion of the CourtStrahan, J.
The following are the assignments of error made by the appellant and which have been argued in this court:
First — Error of the court in permitting the plaintiff to give evidence of an oral agreement between him and one Reeder, a solicitor of the defendant company, to the effect that the plaintiff might leave the insured premises unoccupied.
Second — Error of the court in refusing to allow counsel for the defendant to ask the plaintiff, while a witness on his own behalf, how much more furniture the plaintiff had at what was known as his middle ranch than at the place that was burned.
Third —…
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