Davenport v. New England Mutual Fire Insurance
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
In this case, which was argued by T. D. Eliot, for the plain tiff, and T. G. Coffin and C. B. Farnsworth, for the defendants, the material facts appear in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtFletcher, J.
This is an action of assumpsit on a policy of insurance, dated March 3d, 1846, by which the defendants, a company established by the laws of. New Hampshire, insured a building of the plaintiff’s in New Bedford for $2500, for the term of three years. The building was destroyed by fire on the 15th of May, 1848.
*341The case was opened to the jury, and a verdict taken for the defendants, subject to the opinion of the whole court, upon the facts to be reported; the court to draw such inferences therefrom as a jury might draw. There were several grounds of defence relied upon, of which it is necessary…
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