LaGue v. Farmers & Merchants Insurance Co.

This is a fire loss case. Defendant, Farmers and Merchants Insurance Company (Farmers), appeals from a judgment entered in the sum of $97,881.50 in favor of plaintiffs, Raymond LaGue and his wife, Nancy. The judgment was a modification of a jury verdict which plaintiffs, on their own motion, admitted was excessive in that it awarded them damages in excess of those allowable by law in eases of this nature.

On appeal, among its nine points relied on of claimed trial court error, Farmers contends that the trial court prejudicially erred in permitting Nancy LaGue to testify, during her direct…