Brown v. Home Insurance

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Sampson

Affirming.

Appellant Brown instituted this action against the Home Insurance Company of New York to recover $1,000.00 on a parol contract of fire insurance made, as it is alleged in the petition, on January 1, 1920, whereby the insurance company undertook to insure Brown’s residence and the contents, for a term of five years against loss by fire, in consideration of an annual premium of $10.80. The insurance company denied it entered into such a contract and therefore denied liability.-

*716The insurance company recognizes the general rule that oral…