Bowen v. Connecticut Fire Ins. Co.

Willie Mae Bowen was the owner of certain personal property in Oklahoma City in the nature of household goods and personal effects upon which she purchased a policy of fire insurance from the Connecticut Fire Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn., a corporation, as insurer.' About midnight of Oct. 3-4, 1940, a fire occurred in her home, out of which she filed a claim for dam’age to the personal property so insured. She later sued to enforce the alleged liability, and from a jury’s verdict adverse to her, she appeals. The company filed an answer in which they charged in effect that the fire was…