Smith v. Continental Insurance Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Calhoun District Court. — How. S. M. El-wood, Judge. Action at law to recover an amount alleged to be due on a policy of insurance. A jury was impaneled, a verdict was directed for the defendant, and a judgment was rendered in its favor for costs. The plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
ÉobiNSON, O. J.
— The policy in suit purports to insure the plaintiff against loss or damage by fire, to the amount of four hundred dolíai s, on a dwelling house, and three hundred dollars on furniture and other household property, for the term of five years from the sixth day of February, 1892. On the twenty-fifth day of January, 1896, the dwelling house and nearly or quite all of the personal property insured were destroyed by fire; and the plaintiff seeks to recover, on account of the loss sustained, the amount of the policy. The answer denies all liability, and pleads various defenses. The…
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