Home Insurance Co. v. Wheatley

This is an action to recover on an insurance policy for the loss of an overcoat, and the parties will be referred to hereinafter as they were styled in the court, below.

The plaintiff, E. A. Wheatley, brought suit before a Justice of the Peace, recovered, and the insurance company appealed to the circuit court, where the cause was tried before the court without tbe intervention of a jury, when the plaintiff again recovered in the sum of $45 as the value of the lost coat. Motion for a new trial was made and overruled, the insurance company appealed, and now complains that:

“The Circuit Judge…