Williams v. Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co. of Missouri

STONE, Judge.

Defendant, Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company of Missouri, issued to plaintiff, Gussie Williams of Charleston, Missouri, a policy of insurance providing so-called $25 deductible collision coverage on plaintiff's 1953 DeSoto sedan, which said policy admittedly was in effect on January 27, 1955, when the DeSoto was damaged by “upset.” In this jury-tried suit “for damages on said policy,” defendant appeals from an adverse judgment of $1,000.

Following the accident, plaintiff obtained and submitted to defendant two repair cstimates, one of $1,074 by the then DcSoto-Plymouth dealer…