Sumrall v. Resolute Insurance

DAN M. RUSSELL, Jr., District Judge.

This is a diversity of citizenship action filed by plaintiffs, Otto Sumrall and wife, Ruth Delores Sumrall, residents of Picayune, Mississippi, against Resolute Insurance Company, a Rhode Island corporation with its principal office in Hartford, Connecticut. Plaintiffs seek damages, both compensatory and punitive, claiming loss of property allegedly caused by the fraudulent acts of Solon W. Britt, Jr., and Leroy Penton as agents of said defendant. As their claim is based on a series of events occurring over a period of some three or four years, it is…