Ross v. Hartford Fire Insurance

This is an appeal from the circuit court’s dismissal of appellant’s bill in equity to compel defendant insurance company to consent to the destruction of a 9-year-old mare named “Contemporary” and to pay appellant, insured, $3,000 in accordance with the life insurance policy issued by' appellee to appellant.

Appellant purchased the horse in May, 1959, and insured it with the appellee “against loss by death from natural causes, to include death from illness or disease or accident or fire or lightning, occurring within the term of this policy of any or all animals described hereunder, * * *…