Pollina v. State Mutual Rodded Fire Insurance

Defendant, a domestic farmers’ mutual fire insurance company, carried insurance on plaintiffs’ buildings and certain personal property situated on plaintiffs’ farm near Port Huron, Michigan.

Plaintiffs’ buildings, together with the content's thereof, were destroyed by fire on September 28, 1928. Six days later the president and secretary of the defendant company came to plaintiffs’ premises to adjust the loss. There was a disagreement in regard to a number of items. The adjusters refused to include in the proof of loss the value of some of the dairy machinery, including a water tank on top of…