Dabney v. Connecticut Fire Insurance

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

The Connecticut Fire Insurance Company appeals from a judgment obtained by D. A. Dabney based upon an insurance policy which covered a herd of plaintiff’s cattle, insuring them against loss by fire or lightning, thirty head of which were destroyed by fire. The policy was issued when the cattle were being kept in Montgomery county, Kansas, and later plaintiff shipped them to the Kansas City stockyards for sale, employing Clay, Robinson & Company as his agents to negotiate a sale, but before the sale was effected cattle of the value of…