Niagara Fire Ins. Co. of N.Y. v. Hankins

Opnion ok the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming in part and reversing in part.

Appellee and one of the plaintiffs below, L. E. Hankins, owned a small farm in Christian connty near Hopkinsville, Ky., npon which there was a dwelling and some ontbuilding’s. He borrowed from his coplaintiff, Planters’ Bank & Trnst Company of Hopkinsville, $3,000, and mortgag-ed his farm to secure it. Thereafter, and pnrsnant to an agreement with the mortgagee, he insured his dwelling’ and some of the outbuildings against loss by fire with appellant and defendant below, Niagara Eire Insurance Company of New York, in…