Georgia Home Insurance v. O'Neal

FINLEY, Associate Justice.

Statement__This was a suit in the District Court of Hunt County, Texas, by N. R. O’Neal and T. H. King, defendants in error, against the Georgia Home Insurance Company, plaintiff in error, upon a fire insurance policy for $1000, issued December 30, 1894, by plaintiff in error to the said N. R. O’Neal, to run one year, and covering his stock of merchandise in a certain store in the town of Greenville, Texas. The petition alleged total destruction of said stock by fire January 21, 1895, and assignment of the policy as collateral security to T. H. King after the fire,…