Dan E. Austin, Jr., & Sons, Inc. v. Hartford Fire Insurance

Jordan, Judge.

This was a suit by the plaintiff insured to recover damages against the defendant insurance company under a policy of insurance which contained a rider insuring cattle while being transported in plaintiff’s trucks against death or destruction directly resulting from or made necessary by “collision or derailment or overturn of a vehicle upon which the insured property is being transported.” The petition alleged that on October 4, 1959, while said insurance was in full force and effect, two cows, being transported in one of the plaintiff’s trucks, were killed when both tires on…