Fire Ass'n v. La Grange & Lockhart Compress Co.

McMEANS, Associate Justice.

This suit was instituted by the La Grange and Lockhart Compress Company, hereinafter styled Compress Company,- as plaintiff, in the District Court of Fayette County, Texas, against The Fire Association of Philadelphia as defendant, hereinafter styled the appellant.

The compress company in its pleading claimed that the appellant, being a corporation and an insurance company, had issued its fire insurance policy on the 17th day of September, 1905, for a valuable consideration, insuring the compress company’s property against loss or damage by fire for a period of one…