Mims v. Central Mfrs. Mut. Ins. Co.

RUSSELL, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, complainant in the trial Court, instituted four suits against four fire insurance companies to recover the face amount of four policies, aggregating $25,-000, for loss resulting from the destruction of a stock of merchandise she owned, located at Lafayette, Alabama. Jurisdiction was predicated upon diversity of citizenship and amount in controversy. The allegations of each of the complaints are the same, as are the defenses interposed.

The defenses denied the value of the merchandise was in the amount alleged, and asserted that the policies and their liability…