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BETHESDA SALVAGE CO. v. FIREMAN'S FUND INSURANCE CO.

No. 1591.

111 A.2d 472 (1955)

BETHESDA SALVAGE COMPANY, Inc., a corporation, and David Deckelbaum, Appellants, v. FIREMAN'S FUND INSURANCE COMPANY, a corporation, and Newark Insurance Company, a corporation, and New Hampshire Fire Insurance Company, a corporation, Appellees.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided February 1, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sidney M. Goldstein, Washington, D. C., with whom Joseph D. Bulman, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellants.

Ward B. McCarthy, Washington, D. C., with whom W. Cameron Burton, Thomas B. Heffelfinger and John A. Kendrick, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellees.

Before CAYTON, Chief Judge, and HOOD and QUINN, Associate Judges.

CAYTON, Chief Judge.

Three insurance companies sued Bethesda Salvage Company and its president, David Deckelbaum, for return of monies overpaid on a false fire loss claim. At trial the plaintiffs offered evidence that the insured had represented verbally and in sworn proofs of claim that the loss, consisting of bales of paper destroyed by fire, was in excess of the total coverage of $6,000, and that each of the three companies paid the full amount of its liability...

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