Palatine Insurance v. Smith McKinnon & Son
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Choctaw county. Hon. H. H. Rodgers, Judge. Suit by Smith McKinnon & Son against the Palatine Insurance Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
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Appeal from the circuit court of Choctaw county. Hon. H. H. Rodgers, Judge. Suit by Smith McKinnon & Son against the Palatine Insurance Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. . The provision in the contract sued on and pleaded in this case “that the entire policy, unless otherwise provided by agreement ^endorsed hereon or added hereto, shall be void if the assured now has or shall hereafter make or procure any other contract of insurance, whether valid or not, on the property covered, in whole or in part, by this…
1Opinion of the CourtCook, P. J.
This is a suit instituted in the circuit court of Choctaw county by Smith, McKinnon & Son against the Palatine Insurance Company on an insurance policy issued on the 21st day of October, 1914, and running for one year, to the 21st day of October, 1915, for the sum of fifteen hundred dollars. This policy was issued by M. C. McWhorter & Co., agents of the Palatine Insurance Company at Ackerman, Miss. It contained permission in the face of the policy for the assured to have additional insurance of one thousand dollars. The policy being for fifteen hundred dollars, it permitted the assured to…
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