Exum v. Washington Fire & Marine Insurance Co.

The only question presented by this appeal is whether or not a release and settlement of an automobile fire insurance policy executed by appellant in tbe office of and witnessed by a Deputy State Fire Marshal was executed under such duress as to render it void.

Tbe complainant, Obie Exum, is a negro man aged 37 wbo lived in Tipton County, Tennessee. He finished tbe eighth grade in school and can read and write and seems to have average intelligence.

In 1953 he purchased a 1947 Chevrolet automobile for $895 of which $295 was represented by the trade-in of another car. The remaining $600 was…