Ogburn-Griffin Gro. Co. v. Orient Insurance
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Mobile Circuit Court. Heard before Hou. Samuel B. Browne. Action -by the Ogburn-Griffin Grocery Company against the Orient Insurance Company. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff -appeals. The substance of the plea is sufficiently set out.
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Appeal from Mobile Circuit Court. Heard before Hou. Samuel B. Browne. Action -by the Ogburn-Griffin Grocery Company against the Orient Insurance Company. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff -appeals. The substance of the plea is sufficiently set out. The following charges were given at the request of defendant: (1) The coiirt charges the jury that plaintiff has sued defendant for loss and damage which the plaintiff claimed lo have been done to a certain stock of groceries, tobacco, and other merchandise by fire, and, if the jury should find for plaintiff, then they must include in the…
1Opinion of the CourtGardner, J.
This was a suit upon a fire insurance policy covering a stock of groceries belonging to the Ogburn-Griffm Grocery Company, brought by appellant against appellee.
The defendant pleaded the general issue and also several. special pleas setting up the provisions of the policy, whereby it was provided that: “If a building or any part.thereof fall, except as a result of fire, all insurance on such building or its contents shall immediately cease.”
These special pleas alleged that the building which contained said stock of goods, or a substantial part of said building, fell, not as a result of fire,…
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