Sappington v. St. Joseph Town Mutual Fire Insurance
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the Boone Circuit Court. — Hon. J. A. Hockaday, Judge. (1) Instruction number 1 given for plaintiff is error in that it fails to give the jury any proper legal standard by which the measure of damages should be determined. (2) Instruction number 4 given for plaintiff is error. Mutual insurance companies are exempt from all the provisions of chapter 89, Revised Statutes 1889. Among these provisions is section 5927, upon which this instruction is based.
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Appeal from the Boone Circuit Court. — Hon. J. A. Hockaday, Judge. (1) Instruction number 1 given for plaintiff is error in that it fails to give the jury any proper legal standard by which the measure of damages should be determined. (2) Instruction number 4 given for plaintiff is error. Mutual insurance companies are exempt from all the provisions of chapter 89, Revised Statutes 1889. Among these provisions is section 5927, upon which this instruction is based. Warren v. Ins. Co., 72 Mo. App. 188. (1) Plaintiff’s instruction number 1 is not open to the criticism made by appellant. The…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, P. J.
This is an action brought by plaintiff against defendant, a town mutual fire insurance corporation organized under the statute of this state, to recover a fire insurance policy issued by the latter to the former for $1,200. There was a trial and a judgment for plaintiff and the defendant appealed.
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The defendant as ground for reversing the judgment assigns as error the action of the circuit court in the giving of two of the plaintiff’s instructions. The first of which told the jury in g^gfa^g, that they believed from the evidence that the plaintiff owned the insured property at…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Warren v. Bankers' & Merchants' Town Mutual Co.Missouri Court of Appeals · 1897
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- Dawson v. FlintonMissouri Court of Appeals · 1916