Lawrence v. Calvert Fire Insurance Company

Gtripein Smith, Chief Justice.

Litigation dealt with by the appeal began in 1941 when A. D. Lawrence wrecked a 1937 Ford “pickup” truck by driving it into a ditch near Wynne. Lawrence purchased the vehicle from Kinsey Motor Co., at Forrest City, title notes having been sold to Commercial Credit Corporation. Certain risks were covered by Calvert Fire Insurance Company.

There is testimony from which an inference arises that Lawrence, after the wreck, did not endeavor to salvage the damaged truck; whereupon Fire Adjustment Bureau of West Memphis sent A. J. Boots to look after the Calvert Company’s…