Meyerstein

This is an action to recover a certain sum of money under the terms of two fire insurance policies. The property insured belonged to plaintiff and was used by Mm as a country home. It was situated at Woodside, San Mateo County, and consisted of several buildings located on a tract of land of some twenty acres. The buildings consisted of a dwelling-house, a garage with living-rooms on the second floor which was occupied by female help, and a third building, containing on the first floor a laundry, and on the second two bedrooms and a bath which was used for the male help. Immediately alongside of the house containing the laundry was a wooden.tower sixty feet in height on which was mounted a 10,000-gallon redwood water-tank. The garage and laundry building were entirely separate frame buildings situated some seventy feet distant from the main dwelling. The tank frame was also an entirely separate structure and it, too, was some seventy feet distant from such dwelling. The water-tank supplied all the buildings with water through pipes. Between the several houses were concrete paths connecting one with the other. The entire premises including the three buildings and the water tower…