Gottsman v. Pennsylvania Insurance
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court of Allegheny county: No. 88, to October and November Term 1865. This was an action of covenant on a policy of insurance, brought May 2d 1861, by Anna Gottsman against The Pennsylvania Insurance Company, to recover for a loss by fire on property comprised in the policy. Mrs. Gottsman died after the bringing of the suit, and John P. Robister her administrator was substituted as plaintiff.
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Error to the District Court of Allegheny county: No. 88, to October and November Term 1865. This was an action of covenant on a policy of insurance, brought May 2d 1861, by Anna Gottsman against The Pennsylvania Insurance Company, to recover for a loss by fire on property comprised in the policy. Mrs. Gottsman died after the bringing of the suit, and John P. Robister her administrator was substituted as plaintiff. There was a verdict for the plaintiff, March 16th 1863, for $1698.75, the judgment on which was reversed by the Supreme Court (12 Wright 151). The application was for insurance…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, January 7th 1868, by
Thompson, C. J.
When this case was in this court before, 12 Wright 151, the only questions definitively settled were, whether certain answers to interrogatories by the applicant, Mrs. Gottsman, for insurance, were under the terms of the policy.to be regarded as warranties, and not merely representations; and, secondly, as to the duty of the insured in regard to giving notice to the company of the levy on the goods and furniture insured. The conclusions the court arrived at on these points, reversed the case ; and although there are…
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