Continental Insurance v. Burns

This appeal is from a judgment on a verdict in favor of the plaintiff in ,a suit on an automobile policy of insurance against theft.

The facts as shown by the record are substantially as follows:

John J. Burns, the appellee, an appraiser in the Orphans’. Court of Baltimore City, in December, 1920, bought from a 'man named Charles Smithfield, of Alexandria, Virginia, a used car, for which he paid $1,000. The car was an Oldsr mobile, which,, according to the speedometer, had run 5,000 miles, and which Smithfield represented .to be a 1920 model. Bums took out the policy of insurance about six…