Jacobs v. Mechanics' Traders' Ins. Co.

This is a suit on an insurance policy for $3,000, insuring the plaintiff against loss by theft of an automobile. The insurance company, answering the suit, denied that the automobile was stolen, and averred that .it was taken from New Orleans to Natchez, Miss., and there sold for $606 to one J. R. O. Tate, by one J. E. Walker, also known as Isadore Le Blanc, with the consent of the plaintiff, Jacobs. The insurance company set up a . reconventional demand for $239.84 for expenses incurred by the company in its effort to recover the car. On the issue so presented, the judge of the civil…