Travis v. Peabody Insurance

'Woods, Judge:

Jonathan E. Travis, on the 13th day of May, 1882, instituted in the circuit court of Marion county his action of as-sumpsit against the Peabody Insurance Company to recover the sum of $1,500.00, for which he held a policy of insur-*585anee issued to him by said company, upon a stock of store goods owned by him, in a certain store-house, which during the continuance of the policy was destroyed by fire.

The declaration contained but a single count, which substantially averred, that the defendant on the 8th of November, 188Í, by its instrument, in writing, called a policy of insurance,…