Wooddy v. Old Dominion Insurance
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was a suit in equity in the chancery court of the city of Richmond brought in January, 1876, by James P. Wooddy against The Old Dominion Insurance Company to recover the sum of $1,000, the amount which the plaintiff claimed he was entitled to on account of an insurance by the company upon a house in the town of Tappahannock belonging to the plaintiff.
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This was a suit in equity in the chancery court of the city of Richmond brought in January, 1876, by James P. Wooddy against The Old Dominion Insurance Company to recover the sum of $1,000, the amount which the plaintiff claimed he was entitled to on account of an insurance by the company upon a house in the town of Tappahannock belonging to the plaintiff. On the hearing on the 19th of April, 1877, the court dismissed the bill; but without prejudice to the right of the plaintiff to assert at law any legal rights he might have against the defendant or any other person by reason of the matters…
1Opinion of the CourtBurks, J.
This is an appeal from a decrée of the chancery court of the city of Richmond, dismissing the bill of the complainant, James P. Wooddy, who is the appellant here.
The bill states, in substance, that on the 16th day of April, 1875, the defendant contracted with the complainant to insure his building in the town of Tappahannock, in Essex county, Virginia, against loss or damage by fire, to the amount of one thousand dollars, the risk to commence on the said 16th day of April, and continue one year; that the consideration for the insurance was a premium of twelve dollars and fifty cents, which…
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