Ahana v. Insurance Co. of North America

OPINION OP THE COURT BY

FREAR, C.J.

This is an. action for $1,000 on a policy of fire insurance on two buildings that were burned, with other buildings, in what was known as block 9, in Chinatown,. Honolulu, on January 16, 1900, the defense being, so far as need be considered on these exceptions, that the fire was caused by order of the board of health in the suppression of bubonic plague and so was a “loss caused directly or indirectly * * * by order of any civil authority”, which is one of the losses excepted in the policy. The jury found for the defendant and the plaintiff brings here…