Clingerman v. Everett Cash Mutual Fire Insurance

Opinion by

Baldbige, J.,

On July 14, 1930, the defendant company issued to the plaintiff a fire insurance policy, for a period of five years, in the sum of $2,000, at an annual premium payable in advance, with sixty days grace. The plaintiff paid the annual premiums up to and including July 14, 1932. The policy was, therefore, by its terms in force until sixty days after July 14, 1933.

In the afternoon of July 22,1933, the plaintiff’s barn, a portion of the property covered by the policy, was burned. Suit was brought to recover the sum of $900 for the loss of the building and its contents,…