Oliver v. Fireman's Insurance

This was a petition to vacate and set aside a verdict and judgment rendered in favor of the plaintiff in a suit upon a policy of tornado insurance. It was filed at the term of court at which the verdict and judgment sought to be set aside were entered. The petition was based upon the grounds that the case was disposed of in the absence of defendant and its counsel, under an agreement of parties to postpone the trial until a later date in the term; that a general and special demurrer to the plaintiff’s petition was pending and undisposed of when the case was tried; that the plaintiff’s…