Levinton v. Ohio Farmers Insurance
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 279, Jan. T., 1920, by plaintiffs, from judgment of C. P. No. 2, Phila. Co., Dec. T., 1918, No. 4352, refusing to take off nonsuit, in case of William and J. Levinton, trading as Union Novelty Manufacturing Co., v. Ohio Farmers Insurance Co. of Le Roy, Ohio. Assumpsit on a policy of fire insurance. Before Barratt, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts.
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Appeal, No. 279, Jan. T., 1920, by plaintiffs, from judgment of C. P. No. 2, Phila. Co., Dec. T., 1918, No. 4352, refusing to take off nonsuit, in case of William and J. Levinton, trading as Union Novelty Manufacturing Co., v. Ohio Farmers Insurance Co. of Le Roy, Ohio. Assumpsit on a policy of fire insurance. Before Barratt, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. At the trial the trial judge entered a compulsory non-suit which the court subsequently refused to take off. Plaintiff appealed. Error assigned, inter alia, was refusal to take off non-suit, and rejection of offer…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Kephart,
Plaintiff owned a broom-making plant, which, at the time the policies here sued on were taken out, consisted of a factory, a small bleaching house and a large warehouse 30 by 150 feet, the latter building situate about 100 feet from the factory building. Insurance was placed on a part of this property by the defendants, the *451policies covering all “merchandise, stock, materials and supplies, chiefly broom corn, their own or held in trust or on consignment or sold but not removed, contained in frame warehouse building detached about one hundred feet from Factory…
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