People's Insurance v. Spencer
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny county. Joshua Spencer and James McKay brought an action of debt to'March Term 1866, against The People’s Insurance Company, to recover for a loss by fire of their stock of barley, malt and hops contained in the Phoenix Steam Brewery.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny county. Joshua Spencer and James McKay brought an action of debt to'March Term 1866, against The People’s Insurance Company, to recover for a loss by fire of their stock of barley, malt and hops contained in the Phoenix Steam Brewery. The plaintiffs declared, that on the 2d of December 1864, they were the owners of a stock of barley, malt and hops in the Phoenix Steam Brewery, and that the defendants then made an insurance on said stock for $5000, against loss by fire, for one year from the 29th of November 1864, and on the 5th of December 1864,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Woodward, C. J.
In the dozen assignments of errors upon this record there are several that shall be despatched with a very few words. It cannot be doubted that debt will lie upon a policy of insurance renewed by a parol endorsement: Franklin Ins. Co. v. Massey, 9 Casey 221. Nor that the amended narr. embraced the “ hops” that were added to the policy. And as to the allegations that plaintiffs had taken no license from the Government for distilling whiskey, and that they effected insurance in other companies as brewers and maltsters without disclosing…
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