Springfield Fire & Marine Ins. Co. v. Brown

Defendant in error filed this suit to recover $800, the face value of a fire insurance policy which had been issued to him by plaintiff in error, hereinafter called insurance company, on a house in Cleburne, Tex. The policy was a one-year policy, issued October 16, 1926. It was agreed by the parties in the trial court that the policy had been issued, the house burned, and that same was a total loss, and that the house was vacant from the time the policy was issued until it burned on January 19, 1927. The only defense urged by the insurance company was that the policy was void and…