Davis v. Ford

Pannell, Judge.

1. Where a lessee of tobacco allotment acreage and a tobacco curing barn, for a term from the date of the lease to the end of the calendar year, agrees in said lease to “take out and pay premiums on fire insurance on said barn, payable in case of loss to landlord,” such language will, in the absence of a contrary intent evident elsewhere in the instrument itself, be construed as an agreement to secure insurance to protect the landlord against loss by fire to the extent of the entire building, and not just a part thereof, and, therefore, the full value of the landlord’s…