Beamud v. Porto Rican & American Insurance Co.

Me. Jitstioe Peanco Soto

delivered the opinion of the court.

Catalina Beamnd brought suit against The Porto Rican & American Insurance Company to recover the sum of $1,623.25 for damages done to certain furniture insured by the defendant as the result of a fire that occurred on the morning of February 24, 1922, in a building known, as the “Colonial Café” of this city.

In the afternoon of the night of the fire, between five and *409sis o’clock, the defendant, by an employee, delivered to the plaintiff a letter wherein she Was given notice that the policy insuring her furniture for $2,000 was…