Providence Washington Insurance Company v. Lottie H. Stanley, Individually, Etc.

RIVES, Circuit Judge:

This is a diversity suit seeking recovery under an institutional fire insurance policy. Providence Washington Insurance Company (hereinafter the “Company”) appeals from a judgment entered on a general jury verdict finding it liable to Mrs. Lottie H. Stanley, in her individual capacity and as executrix of her husband’s estate, for a $52,226.87 fire loss to the Covington Memorial Hospital building and its contents. The same jury also found no alternate liability of the local agent of the Company, Charles Little, who had been made a third-party defendant in the action on a…