National Fire Ins. v. Carter

A more detailed statement of the nature and result of this suit will be found in the report of the decision of it by the Court of Civil Appeals of Galveston, 199 S. W. 507, but for the purpose of this opinion it is sufficient to say that the plaintiff in error, National Fire Insurance Company of Hartford, through its agent, W. A. Bell, at Trinity, Tex., wrote and delivered its fire insurance policy payable to Carter & Bro., the defendants in error, in the sum of $5,500 covering a certain store building therein described at Trinity. At the time the policy was written the legal title to the…