Weems v. Service Fire Ins. Co. of New York

This appeal involves the single question of the amount legally to be recovered by the insured from the insurer on an automobile fire and theft policy since the imposition of O. P. A. ceiling prices on automobile tires and tubes and Federal Rationing Restrictions on the purchase and sale of those commodities.

In the Circuit Court of Dickson County, Joe B. Weems, as plaintiff, sued the Service Fire Insurance Company of New York, defendant, for failure and refusal to pay the amount of loss he alleged he had suffered by reason of the theft of his automobile. It is admitted that the plaintiff had a…