Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance v. Van Os & Shuster
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Warren County. Hon. Ralph North, Judge. This action on a contract of insurance was brought by Van Os & Shuster against the London and Liverpool and Globe Insurance Company. The verdict and judgment were for the plaintiffs in the court below, and the defendant company appealed.- It appears that early in 1882 plaintiffs were merchants doing business in Delta, Louisiana. Desiring to insure their stock of goods, they wrote to Messrs.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Warren County. Hon. Ralph North, Judge. This action on a contract of insurance was brought by Van Os & Shuster against the London and Liverpool and Globe Insurance Company. The verdict and judgment were for the plaintiffs in the court below, and the defendant company appealed.- It appears that early in 1882 plaintiffs were merchants doing business in Delta, Louisiana. Desiring to insure their stock of goods, they wrote to Messrs. Kline & Fairchild, defendant’s agents at Vicksburg, for terms, by whom they were referred to one Bradfield, who lived at Delta. The…
1Opinion of the CourtCooper, C. J.
The second instruction given for the plaintiffs, and the second for the defendant, announced practically the same rule for, the guidance of the jury in determining what quantity of evidence was required by law to warrant it in finding a verdict for the defendant upon the ground that the plaintiffs had set- fire to the store and burned their own goods. If the rule was erroneous it was invoked as well by the defendant as the plaintiffs, and the defendant cannot assign it for error.
By the first instruction for the plaintiffs the jury was told that it should find a verdict for the plaintiffs,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Liverpool, London & Globe Insurance v. Sorsby ex rel. ChilesMississippi Supreme Court · 1882
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