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190 Minn. 390

251 N.W 908

Spinner v. McDermott

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided December 29, 1933

Supreme Court of Minnesota · decided 1933-12-29

Relies on Curo v. Citizens Fund Mutual Fire Insurance

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Decided 1933-12-29

How this case has been cited

Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently October 1971

5 state decisions

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STONE, Justice

¶1 (concurring).

¶2 Concurring in the result and all that is said in support of it, I yet submit that this much should be added in view of the necessity for a new trial.

¶3 Even under a standard, valued policy, the insurer has the option to repair in the case of partial, and to rebuild in that of total, loss. Curo v. Citizens Fund Mut. F. Ins. Co. 186 Minn. 225, 242 N. W. 713. So the plaintiff’s damage could in no event exceed the amount of the insurance which defendant contracted to, but did not, procure, or the cost of repairing or rebuilding, whichever of those two maxima may be the lower. Therefore, evidence as to the cost of repairing or rebuilding was relevant on the measure of plaintiff’s damage.

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