Coppinger Color Lab, Inc. v. Nixon

OPINION

BROCK, Justice.

The defendant Nixon purchased the old Church of God Tabernacle building in Cleveland, Tennessee, for $55,000.00 and immediately obtained fire insurance in the amount of $300,000.00 on the same. The evidence indicates that five days later defendant Nixon hired Vance Dobbins and Bruce Dobbins to burn the building down in order that he could collect the fire insurance. Dobbins and Dobbins, the arsonists, were apprehended shortly after the fire was ignited, in the night time, and Bruce Dobbins testified as a witness against defendant Nixon at this trial.

The corporate…