Sammons Bishop v. Insurance Company
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Memminger, J., Greenville, March term, 1912. Action by Sammons and Bishop against The American Home Fire Insurance Company and G. W. Williams. Plaintiffs appeal. The defendant moved for nonsuit and directed verdict on the following grounds: “No-w, as I understand it, our Court has held that a contractor has an insurable interest in such a structure as that for one of two purposes.
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Before Memminger, J., Greenville, March term, 1912. Action by Sammons and Bishop against The American Home Fire Insurance Company and G. W. Williams. Plaintiffs appeal. The defendant moved for nonsuit and directed verdict on the following grounds: “No-w, as I understand it, our Court has held that a contractor has an insurable interest in such a structure as that for one of two purposes. The first is: That if he has been paid anything by the owner of the building, that then they have a right to- recover the insurance and repay him- what he has spent, or it is given them for the purpose that…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Ci-iiee Justice Gary.
This is an action on a policy of insurance for the sum of four hundred and fifty dollars, alleged to be due the plaintiffs, on account of the destruction of a building by fire, which they had contracted to erect for the defendant, G. W. Williams, on his land.
The complaint alleges:
“That at the time hereinafter mentioned, the plaintiffs were building contractors, engaged in the construction of a certain one-story frame, shingle roofed building, to be used as a dwelling, located in the city of Greenville, S. C.
“That in and by its…
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