Crutchfield v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co.

MASSEY, Chief Justice.

This case has been before us on a former occasion. See 306 S.W.2d 948. Therein, judgment based on a verdict instructed for the defendant at the close of plaintiffs’ testimony was reversed and remanded by reason, in part at least, of our conclusion that there were issues of fact to be resolved by the jury, and which, if resolved in favor of plaintiffs, would support a judgment in their behalf.

On such retrial special issues were submitted to the jury, in answer to which the jury found that fire had so damaged the property purportedly insured by the defendant company that…