Pennsylvania Fire Ins. Co. v. Malone

Plaintiffs’ action was for the value of a stock of goods destroyed by fire.

Defendant’s pleas were the general issue and that setting up the violations of specific clauses of the policy. These special pleas invoke provisions of the contract, to the effect, that “assured will (1) take a complete itemized inventory of stock on hand at least once in each calendar year, and, unless such inventory has been taken within twelve calendar months prior to the date of this policy, one shall be taken in detail within thirty days of issuance of said policy,” and, failing in. this, the “policy shall be null…