Iowa State Insurance v. Missouri Southern Railroad

This is a suit by plaintiff insurance company to recover of defendant the amount plaintiff paid the insured on one of its fire insurance policies. The action is for damages on account of the destruction by fire of a three-room dwelling house situated at Bunker, Missouri, near defendant’s railroad track. Plaintiff alleged that the owner of this house had a policy of insurance issued on it by plaintiff, insuring the pi’operty against fire to the extent of $500; that on June 11, 1926, while said policy ivas ixi force, the house was destroyed by fire communicated to it by sparks from one of…