Cecil v. Kentucky Livestock Insurance

Opinion op the Court by

Chiep Justice Miller

Reversing.

The appellee, Kentucky Livestock Insurance Company, is engaged in the business of insuring the owners of livestock against loss by death of their stock from disease, accident or fire, having its principal office in Louisville,1 Ky.

During the month of March, 1913, the appellant, J. G. Cecil, of Boyle County, applied to Hutchings, the local agent of the appellee at Danville, Ky., to insure appellant, to the extent of $1,000.00, against loss by death’of a fine bay stallion named “Great Ward,” which Cecil then owned. Cecil signed the…