Smith v. Farmers Mutual Insurance

Smith sued the Farmers Mutual Insurance Association of Georgia, in the city court of Elberton, upon a policy of fire-insurance. At the trial, in addition to evidence of the value of the property claimed to have been insured, its total destruction by fire, and notice of loss to the company, followed by a refusal on its part to pay, there was evidence that the plaintiff received from one Brown the paper sued on, signed, by the president and secretary of the association. Brown tes*738tified that he was the agent of the association, and as such filled up the blanks in the policy, which had been…