Scott v. Liverpool & London & Globe Ins.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Gary, J., Kingstree, Spring term, 1914. Action by J. C. Scott against Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company. Prom judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. submit: Provisions as to title valid: 98 S. C. 244; 93 S. C. 363; 70 S. C. 296; 3 Ga. App. 130; 60 S. E. 118. Description of property being wrong, remedy, if any, was by reformation: 98 U. S. 85; 136 U. S. 287; 40 W. Va., 518; 32 Am.
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Before Gary, J., Kingstree, Spring term, 1914. Action by J. C. Scott against Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company. Prom judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. submit: Provisions as to title valid: 98 S. C. 244; 93 S. C. 363; 70 S. C. 296; 3 Ga. App. 130; 60 S. E. 118. Description of property being wrong, remedy, if any, was by reformation: 98 U. S. 85; 136 U. S. 287; 40 W. Va., 518; 32 Am. St. Rep. 908; 185 N. Y. 84. Pvidence inadmissible to vary terms of policy: 183 U. S. 308. Duty of insured to read contract, estoppel: 78 S. C. 420 ; 9 S. C. 43; 9 Cyc. 90. cite: Questions as…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Gage.
Judgment below upon a verdict for the plaintiff for eighteen hundred ($1,800.00) dollars; appeal by the defendant.
The suit is on a policy of insurance against fire. The subject of insurance is a dwelling house. The insured is a young man 28 years of age.
The house was situated in the country, on or near a highway which runs from Kingstree east towards Rhems and seven miles from Kingstree. There was confessedly a total destruction of the house, and there is no issue on that score. And no cause for the fire other than an accidental one,…
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