Sheets v. Iowa State Insurance

Plaintiffs instituted this suit against the defendant, a foreign fire insurance company, in the circuit court of Grundy county, on a policy of insurance issued1 by it to Ewing E‘. Adams & Son, and by them assigned to plaintiffs, to recover the sum of two thousand dollars as damages done to a stock of merchandise, by fire, in the town of Cainsville, Missouri. A trial was had, which resulted in a judgment for plaintiffs for the full amount sued for, with interest and cost. After an unsuccessful moving for a new trial, plaintiffs duly appealed the cause to the Kansas City Court of Appeals. The…