Mrs. Jewell Williams (Now Mrs. Jewell Williams Evans) v. Cambridge Mutual Fire Insurance Company and Grain Dealers Mutual Insurance Company

TUTTLE, Circuit Judge.

This is a suit on two insurance policies for fire damage to the appellant’s cafe-dwelling in Calhoun City, Mississippi. The trial court found that the appellant herself intentionally burned the building or procured its destruction, and granted judgment for the appellee insurance .companies. She assigns as error on appeal both this finding of fact by the court, sitting without a jury, and the refusal of the trial court to exclude evidence tending to implicate her as the arsonist, on her theory that the insurance companies were estopped from raising that issue by the…