Fink v. Lancashire Insurance

Rombauer, P. J

The defendant is a foreign insurance company. In August, 1892, it issued its policy of insurance to the plaintiff, insuring him for one year against loss by fire in the sum of $1,800, of which amount $1,450 were placed on his stock of drugs and merchandise, and $350 on his soda fount, shelf ware, and store furniture and fixtures. On the, twenty-seventh day of October,- 1892, the property thus insured was totally destroyed by fire. The plaintiff, not being able to effect a settlement, of the loss with the defendant, thereupon brought this action, and upon its trial before a jury…