Grant Co. Assessment Fire Ins. Co. v. Scroggin

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Tilpord

Reversing.

This is an appeal by an insurer from a judgment awarding tbe insured, the appellee Scroggin, $700 for the destruction of a barn allegedly covered by a fire insurance policy. We reversed a similar judgment, primarily for the reason that the application for the policy, unreformed, constituted a complete barrier to a recovery, since it fixed the location of the barn insured a mile and a half from the’ one which burned. See 283 Ky. 731, 142 S. W. (2d) 987. Instead of amending his petition and seeking a reformation of the application, as we suggested…