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Show FIRE INSURANCE CASE IS OPENED Everfresh Food Company's Complaint Being Aired in Federal Court The case of the Everfresh Food company against the Phoenix Insurance Insur-ance company came up In the I nltr-d St:U-s district cdurt this morning- with Judge Tillman D .Johnson sitting. The food company Is suing to recover re-cover 4,$5Q of Insurance on .t policy taken out June 29, 1 9 1 S. on Its stock of goods which was destroyed by firo at the plant on Jun- 27. 1 Hi it, almost a year later, with a total loss of man-ufarturi-d coods iind supplies, amounting amount-ing to $23,000. Hy a stipulation between the attorneys attor-neys representing both Bides, It has been agreed that tho findings In the Phoenix Insurance company cast wlil be the basis of the awards against the othor Insurance companies for the recovery re-covery of $3500 from the Aetna Insurance Insur-ance company on a policy taken out September ijj. 1918, and for ?u000 from tho Westchester Fire lnsuran e company on a policy taken out July 17. 1918. The principal witness examined by the plaintiff this forenoon, was W. J. Parker, manager of the plant at the time of the fire, who after testifying I that he did not have any Interest In the company and was merely employed as manager testified aa to the manufactured manu-factured products, raw supplies and box material on hand at the time of the fire amounting in all to $28,000. It Is alleged by the food company that no allowance was made by tho adjusters in arriving at the loss for the manufactured prodm ts on hand at the time and the supplies as shown by the books of the company, which supplies and manufactured products were totally to-tally destroyed by fire. |