Walz v. Reliance Insurance

This cause is a companion of Walz v. Peninsular Fire Ins. Co., ante, 326, and has the same parties plaintiff. In that case a judgment in an action on a fire insurance policy was entered in favor of plaintiffs in the Washtenaw circuit on June 2, 1922. The case at bar was brought on for trial by jury on June 5, 1922. The defendant is one of 48 fire insurance companies who insured property of Sarah Goffe at Ann Arbor in the sum of $375,000 which property, on December 31, 1920, was damaged by fire to the extent of $350,000, as plaintiffs claim. Fifty-eight suits have been commenced by plaintiffs…