Taylor
Taylor v. Northwestern National Insurance
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Beasly, J.
This is an appeal from a judgment for plaintiff upon a policy of insurance written by defendant in favor of plaintiff. At the time the policy was issued the plaintiff owned a grocery-store in a one-story frame building in Alameda County. About three months after the date of the policy, a small shed was erected upon the same property with the store covered by the policy. Into this shed a part of the stock of groceries of the store were placed and kept. The shed was subsequently burned.
The trial court found that the shed was an addition to the store within the meaning of the word “addition” as it was used in the policy. The point made here is that this finding is not supported by the evidence.
Under the caption “Country Store Building and Contents Policy Form,” the policy, among other things, provided for insurance ‘‘ On the one-story frame building and its additions, adjoining and communicating, including foundations, piping, plumbing, stationary heating apparatus, electric wiring and fixtures and all other permanent improvements and fixtures attached to and forming a part of said building, occupied as a Grocery Store, situate on the Southwest corner of Forty-first Avenue and…