Arnheim
Arnheim v. Firemen's Insurance of Newark
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Finch, J.
The complaint alleges that at all times therein mentioned the plaintiff was the owner of an undivided one-half interest in a certain building; that on the eleventh day of October, 1920, Carrie L. Kahn was the owner of the other half interest; that on that day the defendant “executed and delivered to plaintiff and said Carrie L. Kahn, its certain policy of fire insurance ... by which said defendant did insure plaintiff and said Carrie L. Kahn for the term of one year from the 1st day of November, 1920, to the 1st day of November, 1921, against all loss or damage by fire, except as in said policy provided, to an amount not exceeding $3000 on the property” aforesaid; that “on the 11th day of June, 1921, the property . . . ivas damaged by fire to the extent and amount of $7987.72”; that “on or about the 18th day of April, 1921, the said Carrie L. Kahn, . . . without the knowledge of plaintiff, sold and conveyed her said one-half interest” in the property. It is then alleged that due proofs of loss were made to the satisfaction of defendant, but that defendant failed and refused to pay the same, and that the proportion of plaintiff’s loss for which defendant is liable to her, by reason…