Hooker v. Continental Insurance

Glanville, C.

Odom Hooker was plaintiff in the court below, and has brought this cause before us on a petition in error, seeking to reverse the judgment of the district court for Stanton county, rendered against him in his action upon an insurance policy for the value of stock killed by lightning. The parties will be designated herein as plaintiff and defendant, as they stood in the trial court. Before considering the merits of the case, it is necessary to decide one preliminary question.

Plaintiff assigns error for the giving of certain instructions by the court to the jury, and after filing…