Cuesta v. Royal Insurance

Simmons, Chief Justice.

This was an action upon a policy of insurance, dated March 24, 1893, which insured the plaintiff for one year from that date against “all direct loss or damage by fire” on his store and office furniture and fixtures contained in the three-story brick tin-roof building, - No. 2 Marietta street, Atlanta, Ga. At the conclusion of the evidence for the plaintiff, the defendant moved for a nonsuit, upon the ground that the loss complained of was not a direct loss hy fire. The motion was sustained, and the plaintiff excepted.

It appears from the evidence, that the fire took…