Board of Education v. Hartford Fire Insurance

Kenna, Judge:

Forty-two actions in assumpsit were brought in the Circuit Court of Hancock County by the Board of Education of that county against various fire insurance companies to recover under the blanket policies issued by each for the loss by fire of the New Cumberland Graded School on January 20, 1938. It was found that there was no denial of liability, and that the only issue in any case concerned only the quantum of damages, and rested upon the question of whether the building' destroyed by fire and its contents was to be valued as a building for the purpose of arriving at its actual…