Legler v. West Side Mutual Fire Insurance

In the year 1930 the plaintiff was engaged in the dairy business on a farm owned by M. J. Donnelly located near Marion, Iowa. The buildings on said farm consisted of two silos, large bam with stable for sixty cows, and in connection a milk house, office, boiler room, ice machine and ice box room, another barn, hen house, granary and dwelling. Plaintiff had an insurance policy with defendant company in the amount of $6400, covering all of his personal property in these various buildings. About the middle of September, 1930, a fire occurred which destroyed the first-mentioned barn, the milk…