Mississippi Mutual Insurance v. Ingram
Mississippi Supreme Court
IN error from the Circuit Court of Monroe county, liam Cothran, judge. I-Ion. Wil- Ingram & Laud brought an action in the court below against the Mississippi Mutual Insurance Company, to recover upon a policy of insurance executed by the company to them, to the amount of $5000. The complaint, which sets out the policy verbatim, is as follows:— The plaintiffs complain and represent, that on the 1.0th day of April, A. D. 1854, at, to wit, in the county aforesaid, the said…
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IN error from the Circuit Court of Monroe county, liam Cothran, judge. I-Ion. Wil- Ingram & Laud brought an action in the court below against the Mississippi Mutual Insurance Company, to recover upon a policy of insurance executed by the company to them, to the amount of $5000. The complaint, which sets out the policy verbatim, is as follows:— The plaintiffs complain and represent, that on the 1.0th day of April, A. D. 1854, at, to wit, in the county aforesaid, the said Mississippi Mutual Insurance Company, for and in consideration of the sum of forty-five dollars, to them in hand paid by the…
1Opinion of the CourtFishes, J.
The plaintiffs below brought this action in the Circuit Court of Monroe county, upon a policy of insurance entered into by the defendants.
The question for decision arises upon the demurrer of the plaintiffs below to the defendants’ answer to the complainant. The answer is as follows: “ That at the time of the fire in said com*226plaint mentioned, the value of plaintiffs’ stock of goods in the storehouse therein described (and upon which stock of goods the insurance of five thousand dollars was made as alleged! was the sum of eighteen thousand, one hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty-three…
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