Lawson v. Southern Fire Insurance

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

These were consolidated actions to recover on two *592insurance policies which covered an airplane hangar near Arkansas City which was destroyed by fire.

Plaintiff, Lee Lawson, owned the hangar; his father, plaintiff Nathaniel Lawson, had a mortgage on it. It had been purchased in Texas from the federal government by the Arkansas City chamber of commerce, transported from Texas, and reerected on leased premises near Arkansas City. It had a capacity to house twelve airplanes, with a work shop and repair annex attached thereto. It was insured in…