Campbell v. Aetna Ins. Co.

WADDILL, Commissioner.

The appellants, Silas Campbell and the Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company, brought this action against the appellees, Aetna Insurance Company and nineteen other insurance companies, to recover $118,000 (less premiums) on an alleged parol contract of insurance on a building destroyed by fire. By agreement the suit was transferred to equity, and following a trial, the Chancellor decided that the parties had not entered into an insurance contract because the evidence failed to establish that there was a meeting of the minds of the parties upon the following essential…