Mutual Improvement Co. v. Merchants & Business Men's Mutual Fire Insurance Co.

Lively, Judge:

Judgment on a verdict of $2,190.00 was rendered against -defendant on a standard fire insurance policy contract January 13, 1932, and defendant prosecutes error.

The fire began in the Raleigh Hardware Company’s building 'adjoining plaintiff’s building, there being between the two a party wall 22 inches thick, with 13 inches thereof on the lot of the Hardware Company and 9 inches on plaintiff’s lot. The party wall was injured as well as other parts of plaintiff’s building. Defendant’s policy was for $10,000.00, which, with other insurance on the building, aggregated $25,000, and…