Lambert v. Security Mutual Fire Insurance
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 20, Oct. T., 1914, by plaintiffs, from judgment of C. P. No. 4, Phila. Co., ■ Dec. T., 1909, No. 4,097, on verdict for' defendant in case of W. W. Lambert, Trustee in Bankruptcy of Bradley Furniture Manufacturing Company, v. Security Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Chatfield. Assumption on a policy of fire insurance.
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Appeal, No. 20, Oct. T., 1914, by plaintiffs, from judgment of C. P. No. 4, Phila. Co., ■ Dec. T., 1909, No. 4,097, on verdict for' defendant in case of W. W. Lambert, Trustee in Bankruptcy of Bradley Furniture Manufacturing Company, v. Security Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Chatfield. Assumption on a policy of fire insurance. At the trial it appeared that the contract provided that the policy should be void if the interest of the in-' sured be other than unconditional and sole ownership; or if the subject of insurance be personal property and be or become incumbered by a chattel mortgage.…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Rice, P. J.,
■ This -was an action of assumpsit on a fire insurance policy issued ■ to Bradley Furniture Manufacturing Company. In a typewritten slip pasted on the printed policy the subject of insurance was thus described: "On their stock of merchandise consisting principally of furniture, manufactured, unmanufactured and in the process of manufacture, and other merchandise not more hazardous, the property of the assured or held in trust for others or on commission or sold but not de*628livered or for which, the assured may be held legally liable all while contained in their Ware Room,…
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