Keller v. Smith
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendants, J. McGill Smith and Herbert B. Harwell, from an order of the District Court of Kamsey County, Chas. D. Kerr, J., made March 24, 1894, denying their motion for a new trial. On December 1, 1890, the plaintiff, J. S. Keller, owned a lot of household furniture valued at $600 and delivered it that day to defendants to be stored for hire in their warehouse, No. 341 East Seventh Street, St. Paul.
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Appeal by defendants, J. McGill Smith and Herbert B. Harwell, from an order of the District Court of Kamsey County, Chas. D. Kerr, J., made March 24, 1894, denying their motion for a new trial. On December 1, 1890, the plaintiff, J. S. Keller, owned a lot of household furniture valued at $600 and delivered it that day to defendants to be stored for hire in their warehouse, No. 341 East Seventh Street, St. Paul. Plaintiff claimed that defendants agreed with him to keep the furniture insured for his benefit against loss by fire saying it would be covered by their policies upon the stock, their…
1Opinion of the CourtBuck, J.
This action is brought to recover the value of certain household furniture which plaintiff stored with the defendants, and he alleges that the defendants agreed to insure it for its full value, alleged to be the sum of $666, and the verdict of the jury was in favor of plaintiff for $450. The defendants deny that they agreed to insure the goods. They were destroyed by fire while in the defendants’ possession. The defendants were engaged in business as furniture and carpet dealers, and in their answer they “admit that on or about the first day of Decembér, 1890, these defendants, for and in…
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