Lesser v. Jefferson Fire Insurance

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Hobson

Affirming.

H. J. Lesser was running a store at Dixon, Kentucky, and took out policies with appellees insuring his goods. The store burned and he brought this suit to recover on the policies. They defended on the ground that he had negligently or wilfully set fire to the store and so burned it. On a trial of the case before a jury the court instructed the jury in substance that they should find for the plaintiff unless they believed from the evidence that the fire and loss of the merchandise in question was caused, suffered or procured by the…