Lee v. Hartford Fire Insurance Company

Opinion of the Court bt

Judge McCandless

Affirming.

James P. Lee sued the Hartford Fire Insurance Company in the Bullitt circuit court for the sum of $2,-011 as indemnity for the destruction by fire of a dwelling, barn, and certain personal property covered by a policy in that company. The defendant answered, pleading a number of affirmative defenses, wbicb were controverted by reply, and upon which, on a jury trial and under proper instructions, a verdict was returned for plaintiff for the amount claimed. Aside from the issues thus submitted to the jury, the defendant pleaded the following…