Barton v. Automobile Insurance

This is an action of contract begun in a District Court on October 22, 1935, upon a “fine arts” policy of insurance dated July 16, 1930, and actually issued to the plaintiff on July 24, 1930, by the Inland Marine Department of the defendant, insuring sixty-one oil paintings listed in an accompanying schedule and therein separately valued, the sum of the separate valuations being $184,250, against all risks of loss or damage except those specifically excluded. See G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 175, § 3; § 47, Second, (d); § 22A as amended by St. 1935, c. 234, and St. 1938, c. 181. Loss or damage by fire…