Corbeil v. Patrons Mutual Insurance

NICHOLS, Justice.

The Plaintiff, an elderly lady, brought suit on her contract of homeowner’s insurance with the Defendant, alleging that certain damage to a shed attached to her house in Biddeford resulted from a windstorm. The insurer’s defense was that the damage in question was caused not by the wind, a covered peril, but by frost heaves, a non-covered peril. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the Plaintiff, and the Defendant has appealed from the judgment entered thereon.

We sustain the appeal.

The Plaintiff was unable to give the precise date of the damage she alleged. She testified…