Robinson v. Home Fire & Marine Insurance

This is a law action for damages for two separate defamatory statements. Both alleged statements followed a fire in October 1949 which damaged plaintiff’s home, insured by defendant-company. Defendant claimed plaintiff set the house on fire. Plaintiff’s husband died from burns received in the fire. Plaintiff sued defendant on the insurance policies and recovered the full amount of insurance notwithstanding the defense she set the fire. Clifton Davis had lived in plaintiff’s home until about a year before the fire.

Division III of plaintiff’s amended petition alleges this slanderous statement…