Ohio Casualty Ins. Co. v. Stewart

GALLAGHER, Chief Justice.

This suit was'instituted by appellee, R. H. Stewart, against appellant Ohio Casualty Insurance Company, to recover on a fire insurance policy issued to him by appellant on a Franklin automobile, which was damaged and practically destroyed by fire. The liability of appellant was, by the terms of said policy, limited to $1,700. Appellant denied liability on the ground that certain recitals therein with reference to the description of the ear insured and cost thereof to appellee were untrue, and upon the further ground of an alleged untrue statement in the proofs of loss…