Eagan v. Ætna Fire & Marine Insurance
West Virginia Supreme Court
Supersedeas to a judgment of the circuit court of Kanawha county, rendered on the 6th day of June, 1876, in a suit at law, pending then in said court, wherein David Eagan, was plaintiff, and the JEtna Fire and Marine Insurance Company of Wheeling, was defendant. Green President, who delivered the opinion of the Court, sufficiently states the case. Hon. Joseph Smith, Judge of the seventh judicial circuit, presided below.
1Opinion of the Court
Green, PresideNT,
delivered the opinion of the Court.
This is an action of assumpsit, brought by David Eagan v. The Ætna Fire and Marine Insurance Company, of Wheeling, in July, 1874, upon an alleged adjustment of the damages to be paid, resulting from a fire on the 19th day of January, 1874, which destroyed a certain building insured by the defendant against fire for one year, in a policy of insurance issued by said company, on October 6, 1873. The policy contained the same provisions that are set forth in the policies in the cases of Quarrier v. The Peabody Insurance Company and Quarrier v.…
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