Posey v. Continental Insurance

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Hobson

Affirming.

The appellants brought this suit against The Continental Insurance Company, alleging in their petition that the company had, by a parol contract, insured a frame store-house and stock of goods and fixtures belonging to them, in the sum of seventeen hundred andi fifty ($1,750) dollars, for one year from the fourteenth day of September, 1909, at noon, and that the property burned that night.

The company filed an answer denying the allegations of the petition. The' ease came on to be heard before a jury; the court, at the conclusion of the…