Camden Fire Ins. v. Penick

BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

This is a suit for the proportion of the value of potton covered by the defendant company’s fire insurance policy. Plaintiff’s warehouse and the cotton stored therein were destroyed by fire. The insurance policy contains the provisions that the insured within 60 days 'after the fire shall render to the insurer a sworn statement of the amount of loss and that the policy shall be void in case of fraud or false swearing by the insured touching any matter relating to the subject of the insurance. The defense was that the plaintiff iti. his sworn proof of loss included bales…