Spector v. Northwestern Fire and Marine Ins. Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Schaffer,

Plaintiff, a copartnership, registered and doing business in New Jersey, took out a policy of fire insurance issued and countersigned in that state, in defendant company, a corporation of Minnesota. The policy covered a stock of merchandise in a store in New Jersey. The property insured was consumed by fire. Suit was brought in the Common Pleas of Philadelphia to recover the loss and resulted in a verdict and judgment in plaintiff’s favor, from which defendant has appealed.

We are called upon to determine but a single question : Is the suit maintainable? The writ…