Pennsylvania Co. for Insurances on Lives & Granting Annuities v. Central Trust & Savings Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 122, Jan. T., 1916, by defendant, from judgment of Superior Court, affirming judgment of C. P. No. '5, Philadelphia Co., June T., 1914, No. 634, for plaintiff, in case of Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities, William H. Henderson and George Henderson, Executors and Trustees under the Will of Adelaide C. Henderson, Deceased, and George Henderson, Individually, v. Central Trust and Savings Company. Appeal from the Superior Court.
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Appeal, No. 122, Jan. T., 1916, by defendant, from judgment of Superior Court, affirming judgment of C. P. No. '5, Philadelphia Co., June T., 1914, No. 634, for plaintiff, in case of Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities, William H. Henderson and George Henderson, Executors and Trustees under the Will of Adelaide C. Henderson, Deceased, and George Henderson, Individually, v. Central Trust and Savings Company. Appeal from the Superior Court. The facts appear in the opinion of the Supreme Court. See Pennsylvania Co. for Ins. on Lives & Granting Annuities v. Central…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Frazer,
In March, 1912, plaintiffs purchased a blanket mortgage of twenty-one thousand dollars on a number of houses embracing a building operation in the City of Philadelphia. The buildings were at the time unfinished and defendant issued a policy in the sum of twenty-one thousand dollars insuring plaintiffs against, inter alia, “actual loss or damage not exceeding twenty-one thousand dollars, which the said insured shall sustain by reason of noncompletion of premises.” In April, 1912, three of the houses covered by the mortgage were released from its lien by mutual…
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