Gould v. MFA Mutual Insurance Company

STONE, Presiding Judge.

This is a suit on a fire insurance policy. About 2:30 A.M. on January 21, 1958, a 22-foot, 2-wheel, wooden house trailer (and the contents thereof) owned by plaintiffs, Jessie and Stella Gould, burned on the 30-acre farm of plaintiff Stella’s sister and her husband near Benton, Missouri. As plaintiffs’ evidence went, Jessie had been “picking fruit” in Florida since “about the first of December” 1957, Stella had been with her son in Kentucky since “a couple weeks” after Jessie left for Florida, the trailer door had been padlocked with Stella carrying the only key, and…