Pennsylvania Casualty Co. v. Brooks

This suit has for its object the recovery of the sum of $1,214.50 which the plaintiff alleges it paid by mistake for and on behalf of the defendant on the supposition of an obligation that did not exist, and without any intention of making a gift to him of that amount.

The facts as stated in the petition are substantially as follows: In 1942 the plaintiff issued a public liability insurance policy to the defendant who operated a business known as Brooks Seafood Company at Morgan City, Louisiana, on certain motorized equipment which he owned and which included trucks used in transporting…