Stickley v. Mobile Insurance
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Aldrich, J., Beaufort, September, 1890. Tbis was an action by John Stickley against the Mobile Insurance Co., commenced Aug. 3,1889, to recover under a contract of insurance for a loss by fire. So much of the complaint as set forth the contract, loss, and proof of loss, was as follows: III. That on and before the 14th day of June, 1888, the plaintiff applied to Chas.
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Before Aldrich, J., Beaufort, September, 1890. Tbis was an action by John Stickley against the Mobile Insurance Co., commenced Aug. 3,1889, to recover under a contract of insurance for a loss by fire. So much of the complaint as set forth the contract, loss, and proof of loss, was as follows: III. That on and before the 14th day of June, 1888, the plaintiff applied to Chas. J. Colcock, jr., the duly authorized agent of the defendant at Port Eoyal, in the county and State aforesaid, for insurance against loss or damage by fire upon his dwelling house, in the city of Port Eoyal aforesaid, and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Pope.
This was an action tried before his honor, Judge Aldrich, and a jury, at the September, 1890, term of the Court of Common Pleas for Beaufort County, wherein a verdict was rendered for the plaintiff', and after judgment was entered thereon an appeal was taken to this court. It may be remarked, that this is an action to recover the amount of an insurance of the dwelling house and furniture, alleged to have been effected for the plaintiff by one, Colcock, as the agent of the defendant, the Mobile Insurance Company, beginning on the 14th…
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