Hawkins v. Agricultural Insurance

This is an action of assumpsit, brought on an insurance policy-issued by the defendant to the plaintiff, to recover for the loss of an automobile covered by the policy- and rented by the plaintiff to a customer and never returned. At the trial in the superior court a motion for a nonsuit was made by the defendant at the conclusion of the evidence for the plaintiff and was granted by the trial justice on the ground that it appeared from the evidence that no claim.for the loss was filed by the plaintiff with the defendant in accordance with the requirements of the policy. The case is now before…