National Fire Insurance v. Patridge

The appellee, -Wv C. Patridge, instituted this suit in the circuit court of Leake county against the National Fire Insurance Company on an insurance policy covering five hundred dollars on a store building and one thousand five hundred dollars on a stock of merchandise which had been destroyed by fire. At the conclusion of 'the evidence the court peremptorily instructed the jury to return a verdict for the appellee, and from a judgment for two thousand dollars entered in pursuance of this instruction, this appeal was prosecuted.

To the declaration the defendant, appellant here, filed a plea of…