Home Insurance v. Chowning

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Sampson

— Affirming.

*328This appeal is from a judgment of the Spencer circuit court in favor of appellee Chowning and against the appellant Home Insurance Company, enforcing a fire insurance policy for $600.00 on a farm residence destroyed by fire in 1917. The company admits the issual of the policy, collection of the premiums and destruction of the insured building by fire, but is defending on the grounds that plaintiff Chowning was not the owner of the property at the time of the issual of the policy or (2) if he was at that time such owner he later and before the…