Danielson v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance

Dell, Chief Justice.

In this case a bam, owned by plaintiffs and insured by defendant, collapsed. This action was instituted to recover on an insurance policy which insured against loss from fire and, because of extended coverage, windstorm. The jury returned a verdict for plaintiffs, and defendant appealed from the denial of its alternative motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial.

Plaintiff Karl A. Danielson was an employee of Thorpe Brothers, a real estate company in Minneapolis. Mr. Danielson and his wife, the other plaintiff herein, purchased a farm in Blue Earth…