Georgia Life Ins. v. Friedman
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Bolivar county. IíoN. Sam C. Cook, Judge. Suit by Joseph Friedman against the Georgia Life Insurance Company. From a judgment for plaintiff defendant appeals. The facts' are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
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Appeal from the circuit court of Bolivar county. IíoN. Sam C. Cook, Judge. Suit by Joseph Friedman against the Georgia Life Insurance Company. From a judgment for plaintiff defendant appeals. The facts' are fully stated in the opinion of the court. We respectfully submit to the court that section seven of the mercantile rider in this insurance policy, clause “A” of same which states that the company is not liable, “if the accounts of the assured are not so kept that the actual loss may be accurately determined therefrom,” simply means that the books of account kept by the insured must show in…
1Opinion of the CourtReed, J.
The store of appellee in Cleveland, Miss., was burglarized on May 21, 1911. He brought suit on a policy issued by appellant to indemnify him for any loss from burglary. He claimed that the value of the goods taken amounted to seven hundred ninety-two dollars and twenty-two cents. The jury returned a verdict in his favor for three hundred and ninety-five dollars.
*795Appellant assigns as error the refusal by the court to give a peremptory charge to find in its favor on the ground that appellee had failed to comply with section .seven of the mercantile rider in the burglary insurance policy. This…
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- Pearlman v. Metropolitan Surety Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1908
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