Boston Ins. Co. v. Fisher

SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment for $19,000 and interest in favor of the plaintiffs (appellees) entered upon the verdict of a jury in an action on an insurance contract covering cotton gin machinery against certain risks, including loss by fire.

In substance, the claim of the plaintiffs was that an agent of the defendant (appellant), authorized to issue policies of fire insurance for it, entered into a contract of insurance covering to the extent of $19,000 against loss by fire the machinery in a cotton gin belonging to the plaintiff R. L. Fisher, at Marston, Missouri…