Georgia Home Insurance v. Allen
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Limestone Circuit Court.' Tried before Hon. H. C. Speake. Tlie first count of the complaint is as follows: “The plaintiff claims of the defendant the sum of seven hundred dollars ($700.00), with interest thereon, the value pf his stock of merchandise, consisting of family groceries, confectioneries, tobacco, cigars, cases, lamps and scales and such other merchandise, not more hazardous, keptforsale, usual to such stocks, while contained in the one story of the…
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Appeal from Limestone Circuit Court.' Tried before Hon. H. C. Speake. Tlie first count of the complaint is as follows: “The plaintiff claims of the defendant the sum of seven hundred dollars ($700.00), with interest thereon, the value pf his stock of merchandise, consisting of family groceries, confectioneries, tobacco, cigars, cases, lamps and scales and such other merchandise, not more hazardous, keptforsale, usual to such stocks, while contained in the one story of the brick one-story building, with metal roof, situated on the northeast corner of the public squáre in Athens, Alabama, which…
1Opinion of the CourtHaralson, J.
The defendant took issue on the first count in the complaint, and also on the second count, but filed a special plea to-the second.
The second count alleged — after setting out the insurance and loss, as averred in the first count, and that the defendant had notice thereof — “that soon after the fire the defendant, hv its agent, visited, investigated and ex-*444¿mined, .the scene of ’ the fire, and thoroughly informed itself of the loss and damage by the fire, and waived formal proof thereof by the plaintiff, and failed to make payment,” etc.
The special plea to this count sets np, that the assured…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Titus v. . Glens Falls Insurance CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1880
- Queen Insurance v. YoungSupreme Court of Alabama · 1888
- Piedmont & Arlington Life Insurance v. YoungSupreme Court of Alabama · 1877
- Capital City Insurance v. Caldwell Bros.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1891
- Liverpool & Loudon & Globe Insurance v. TillisSupreme Court of Alabama · 1895
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3Cited by36 opinions
- Southern States Fire Ins. v. KronenbergSupreme Court of Alabama · 1917
- Georgia Home Insurance v. AllenSupreme Court of Alabama · 1900
- Insurance Co. of North America v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Alabama · 1917
- Tillis v. Liverpool & London & Globe InsuranceSupreme Court of Florida · 1903
- Pennsylvania Fire Ins. v. DraperSupreme Court of Alabama · 1914
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