Patrick v. Kentucky Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co.

SCOTT REED, Special Commissioner.

Appellant, Myrtle Patrick, appeals from a judgment denying her recovery upon a fire insurance policy issued to her by ap-pellee insuring real estate owned by her against destruction by fire. Fire destroyed the insured property, but the trial court ruled that at the time of the loss appellant did not have an insurable interest in the property destroyed.

The problem posed by this appeal is one of first impression in this jurisdiction and requires determination of whether or not the owner of property destroyed by the element insured against has an insurable…