Burke v. New England Fire Ins. Co.

COMBS, Justice.

This suit was instituted by appellant, A. C. Burke, to collect $1,500, the face amount of a fire insurance policy issued by the appellee, which will be referred to as the insurance company. The policy covered • a rent house which was vacant at the time it burned. The insurance com■pany defended on the ground, among others, that the plaintiff either burned the house or had it burned for the purpose of collecting the insurance. That issue, as well as others, was controverted. On a trial to a jury the jury found by special issue 18 that plaintiff did not burn the house. But in…