United States Cooperage & Handle Co. v. Firemen's Fund Insurance

This is an action upon a fire insurance policy. On April 15, 1910, the defendant insurance company issued to plaintiff a policy of insurance in the amount of $5500 on plaintiff’s stock of staves in eleven sheds, or warehouses, numbered from one to eleven inclusive, and on certain other property as well, situated on plaintiff’s premises at Malden, Missouri. On October 26,1910, a fire occurred by reason of which the stock of staves in one of these sheds, to-wit, shed No. 9, was damaged in the sum of $1618.30'. At the time of the fire, the value of the stock of staves in this shed was $1813.30,…