Supreme Judicial Court of Maine July 1, 1858 (Joyce v. Maine Insurance)

The opinion of the Court was drawn up by

Tenney, C. J.

In the defence of this action, which is on a policy of insurance against a loss by fire, the opinions of certain persons, who were shown to have had experience in the business of insurance, as to the comparative risk of a dwellinghouse, which had been vacated after the occupation thereof, and when the occupation had continued; — and, whether