Catlin v. Springfield Fire Ins.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
At law. Assumpsit on a policy of insurance. Plea, the general issue. By the policy in the present case, dated on the 30th of May. 1S25, the defendants insured the plaintiff [Guy Catlin] for the space of six years from that date, “against loss or damage by fire to the amount of nine hundred dollars, on a dwelling-house, barn, and shed, situate, &e. in the town of Burlington, (Vermont,) owned by Lemuel Hayden and Harvey Hobart, of Burlington aforesaid, at present occupied by…
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At law. Assumpsit on a policy of insurance. Plea, the general issue. By the policy in the present case, dated on the 30th of May. 1S25, the defendants insured the plaintiff [Guy Catlin] for the space of six years from that date, “against loss or damage by fire to the amount of nine hundred dollars, on a dwelling-house, barn, and shed, situate, &e. in the town of Burlington, (Vermont,) owned by Lemuel Hayden and Harvey Hobart, of Burlington aforesaid, at present occupied by one Joel Rodgers, as a dwelling-house; but to he occupied hereafter as a tavern, and is privileged as such. Said…
1Opinion of the Court
STORY, Circuit Justice.
A motion has been made and argued for a new trial upon various grounds. In the first place, that the court instructed the jury, that the letter of' the plaintiff to the defendants, giving notice-of the loss, was a sufficient compliance with the eighth condition above stated, requiring “a particular account of the loss or damage.” The argument is, that the particular account here referred to should contain not only a statement of the amount of the loss, but of the manner and cause of the loss, verified by the oath of the party, so that it should appear, that it did not…
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