Mutual Fire Insurance v. Owen

This suit was brought by the appellee, the plaintiff1 below, against the appellant, the defendant below, to recover for a loss alleged to have been suffered, by the plaintiff under a fire insurance policy issued by the defendant.

On February' 13th, 1919, the plaintiff, who was then conducting a store in a rented building in Charles County, in sured his stock of merchandise in the defendant company for eight hundred dollars. Later on he erected, at his own expense, a store building on ground owned by Ms infant ward, Claude Jameson, under an oral agreement that the ward would, on becoming of…