Grimes v. Virginia Fire & Marine Ins. Co.

The appellant brought this suit against the appellee to recover the sum of $2,000 on an alleged, oral contract to insure a stock of automobile tires and accessories, made by appellant and A. W. Young, agent of the appellee, in the city of Hillsboro, Hill county, Tex., on the 23d day of September 1917. On the 12th day of April, 1919, the cause came on for trial. A jury was impaneled, and at the conclusion of the evidence the court instructed the jury peremptorily to return a verdict in favor of the appellee. This was done, and judgment entered in accordance) 'therewith. Appellant, 'being…