Keefhaver v. Hartford Fire Insurance Co.

JAMES W. BROADDUS, Special Commissioner.

This is an action based upon an alleged oral contract of insurance. Plaintiff recovered a verdict and judgment in the sum of $571, together with an attorney’s fee of $200. Defendant has appealed.

The evidence disclosed that the plaintiff, Joe Keefhaver, built a “car wash” in the spring of 1965 in Edgerton, Missouri. In connection with the “car wash” he installed a “pop machine” or “can-vendor”, which he had purchased from the Seven-Up Bottling Company of St. Joseph, Missouri, for the sum of $571. On the night of September 4, 1965, the pop machine was…