National Fire Insurance v. Banister

Townsend, Presiding Judge.

1. Pleadings are to be given a reasonable intendment, and a strained and unnatural construction will not be given them in order to raise an inference against the pleader. Where, as here, it appears that the plaintiff carried a policy of fire insurance on a described house and contents, an allegation as follows: “. . . de fendant insured plaintiff for the period stated in said policy of insurance against loss by fire of the building and contents belonging to plaintiff; said building and contents owned by plaintiff and described in said policy being a brick veneer…