Legal Opinion

J. B. Clark & Sons v. Franklin Ins.

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided March 25, 1912No. 18,618PublishedCited by 10 opinions

Appeal from Twenty-Second Judicial 'District Court, Parish, of East Baton Rouge; H. F. Brunot, Judge. Action by J. B. Clark & Sons against tbe Franklin Insurance Company and the Phoenix Assurance Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants appeal. Amended and

1Opinion of the Court

Statement of the Case.

MONROE, X

Plaintiffs sued' the defendants named in the caption on two policies of fire insurance, the one for $5,000, and the other for $2,000, covering a stock of merchandise in a store in Farmerville; each of the policies containing the three-fourths value clause, and each running from October 2, 1909, to October 2, 1910. They allege that the property insured was totally destroyed by fire on November 1, 1909, and that its value exceeded, by one-fourth, the aggregate of the amounts called for by said policies, and they pray for judgments, according to said contracts.…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Continental Insurance v. Washington Waugh & SonNebraska Supreme Court · 1900
  2. St. Landry Wholesale Mercantile Co. v. Teutonia Ins.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1905
  3. Phoenix Assurance Co. of London v. StensonCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1904

3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Davis v. National Fire Ins. Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1929
  2. London Assur. Corporation v. PooleSupreme Court of Alabama · 1924
  3. Manuel v. Stuyvesant Ins.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1924
  4. Talbert v. Northwestern Nat. Ins. Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1929
  5. Boulanger v. British UnderwritersSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1917

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