Atlantic Mutual Fire Insurance v. Pruitt

(After stating the foregoing facts.)

The first contention of the insurance company, as stated by its counsel, is “that the evidence demands a verdict in favor of the defendant insurance company because it appears from the evidence and all proper inferences therefrom that the proximate cause of the loss and damage to the insured merchandise was a tornado, and that fire occurred in the wreckage immediately following the collapse of the building containing the insured stock of merchandise as the immediate, direct, proximate, and natural result of the destruction of the building by the tornado.”…