Shepard v. Germania Fire Insurance
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Clinton; Searl, J. Assumpsit by Laura L. Shepard against the Germania Fire Insurance Company on a policy of insurance. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtBird, J.
Plaintiff instituted this suit to recover for a loss which she suffered by fire to certain business property which she owned in the village of Ovid. She had judgment in the trial court, and the defendant brings the case to this court by writ of error.
The plaintiff was the owner of two brick stores facing the east, on Main street, in the village of Ovid. The north one was occupied as the post office, and the south one as a restaurant. At the rear of the stores, and from five to eight feet distant, was a two-story wooden structure extending nearly the entire width of the stores. The wooden…
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- Marsh v. Concord Mutual Fire InsuranceSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1902
- Pettit v. State InsuranceSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1889
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- Guthrie Laundry Co. v. Northern Assurance Co.Supreme Court of Oklahoma · 1906
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