Gulf Insurance Company v. Ball

PITTS, Chief Justice.

Appellee, E. F. (Elmer) Ball, sued appellant, Gulf Insurance Company, a corporation, for recovery by reason of a fire loss sustained under the terms of a policy of trip transit insurance issued by appellant. The record reveals that on or about August 5, 1948, appellee shipped 110 truck tires valued at $11,000 from Dallas, Texas, to Brownsville, Texas, by way of truck trailer with M. M. Dickerson, Jr., as the carrier, upon which tires appellee had issued by appellant a trip transit insurance policy for $8,910 against loss coverage and that the said load of tires, while in…