Cohen v. Home Insurance Co.

S. c. on demurrer, 5 Boyce, 531, 95 Atl. 238; 6 Boyce, 6, 95 Atl. 912; 7 Boyce, 122, 102 Atl. 621; 6 Boyce, 210, 97 Atl. 1018, on trial.

Because of the importance of this case, and in view of an equal division of opinion among the judges sitting in the cause, it is thought well to report a summary of the facts and arguments of counsel, with the order affirming the judgment below.

In the latter part of 1913 and the early part of 1914, David Cohen, the plaintiff below, was engaged in a mercantile buáiness in the town of Greensboro, Caroline county, Maryland, where he conducted a general store. In…