O'Niel v. . the Buffalo Fire Ins. Co.
New York Court of Appeals
O’Neil sued The Buffalo Fire and Marine Insurance Company, in the recorder’s court of the city of Buffalo,- on a fire policy, and had a verdict and judgment. The supreme court affirmed the judgment on error brought, and the defendants appealed to this court.
1Opinion of the CourtRuggles, J.
The defendants insured the plaintiff, John O’Niel, against loss or damage by fire, to the amount of two thousand dollars, on his two^story frame building fronting on Ridout and Market streets, in the town of London, Canada West, occupied by the Hon. George J. Goodhue, as a private dwelling. The insurance was for one year from the 26th of April, 1847, on which day the policy bears date. The house was destroyed by fire on the 6th of December of the same year. Goodhue, who occupied the house at the date of the policy, removed from and ceased to occupy it about three weeks before the fire.
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