Hopkins v. Fidelity Insurance

Legge, Acting Justice.

Action is for damages for fraud and deceit. From a circuit court order overruling its demurrer to the complaint and denying, in part, its motion to strike certain allegations, defendant appeals.

The complaint alleged, in substance: that the plaintiff, twenty-six years old, husbandless, illiterate, and dependent for support on the kindness of relations and her own meager income as a part-time farm laborer, was on April 7, 1961, living as a tenant on the farm of one B. L. McCaskill with her' mother, an invalid uncle, a minor brother, and her two children, — a son aged five…