Ober v. National Casualty Co.

This is an action of contract upon an insurance policy issued by the defendant to recover for the death of the plaintiff’s intestate, Douglass J. Ober. At the conclusion of the plaintiff’s opening the defendant moved for a directed verdict. Thereupon the policy of insurance was admitted in evidence, and the judge directed the jury to return a verdict for the defendant. The plaintiff duly excepted to that action.

The terms of the policy provide, so far as here material, for the payment of $2,000 in case of loss of life by “the burning of any church, theatre, library, school or municipal…