Insurance Cos. v. Estes

These actions were commenced separately to recover on policies of fire insurance. The same questions being involved in both suits, they were consolidated in the Court below and beard together. The trial resulted in a verdict and judgment against each company for the sum of $1,000, the amount of its policy, with interest. Both companies appealed, and have assigned errors.

The declarations allege that on the thirteenth of February, 1899, the defendant companies issued to the plaintiff, E. M. Estes, policies of fire insurance for the sum of $1,000 each on a certain *474mill building, machinery, etc.,…