Richard v. Hartford Fire Insurance

SMITH, Justice:

Appellants, Wilton Richard and G. Ramsey Russell, to whom Richard had assigned his claim prior to suit, were plaintiffs in an action in the Circuit Court of Washington County against appellee, Hartford Fire Insurance Company, to recover upon a policy of inland marine insurance on a crawler tractor alleged in plaintiffs’ declaration to have been destroyed by fire in Cass County, Texas. General Electric Credit Corporation, holder of a lien upon the tractor, was permitted to intervene. The jury returned a verdict for Hartford and plaintiffs appeal.

The policy in question had been…