United Mut. Fire Ins. Co. v. Talley

This writ of error was sued out from a default judgment rendered in favor of defendant in error against plaintiff in error, upon a certain fire insurance policy. The grounds relied upon for a reversal are substantially that the plaintiff’s petition was subject to general demurrer and insufficient to support a judgment by default, and that there was no legal service.

[1] It is claimed that the petition was fatally defective because it did not allege that the property insured was destroyed by fire. The record discloses that plaintiff alleged the issuance to him by defendant for a valuable…