Greer-Robbins Co. v. Insurance of State of Pennsylvania

This was an action upon an insurance policy issued by the defendant to plaintiff on September 23, 1916, covering certain auto supplies and sundries of merchandise belonging to the plaintiff, and' being at the time of their destruction by fire in the plaintiff’s building at the northeast corner of Flower and Twelfth Streets, in the city of Los Angeles. The policy in question was a California standard form of fire insurance policy, and the terms thereof, in so far as they relate to the description of the location of the property insured, read as follows: “In consideration of the stipulations herein made, and of $37.50 premium, does insure Greer-Robbins Company, Incorporated ... to an amount not exceeding $2,500.00 to the following described property while located and contained as described herein and not elsewhere, to wit: $2,500.00 on merchandise, materials, sundries, spare and extra parts ... all while contained in or attached to the brick building, in basements or under sidewalks thereof, and its additions, situate in the rear of No. 1158 South Flower Street, being the northeast corner of West 12th Street.”

[1] Upon the date of said insurance policy the goods in question were…