Kings County Fire Insurance v. Swigert

In this case the fact seems to be undisputed that the plaintiff, at the date of the policy in suit, and from that time up to the date of the loss, kept and used gasoline in considerable quantities on the premises insured, and the question is, whether his doing so vitiated his policy.

While gasoline is not mentioned by name, or the keeping or use of it on the pz-emises forbidden in terms, yet, we think, it can scarcely be doubted that the language of the policy, when interpreted in the light of the evidence, includes gasoline among the articles which the plaintiff was prohibited from keeping or…