Provident Washington Insurance Company v. Reese

This is a suit brought on a policy of fire insurance by Bill Reese and wife, Ava Reece, against the Provident Washington Insurance Company. For convenience, we shall refer to the parties according to their status in the Chancery Court. In both the Chancery Court and in the Court of Appeals there was a recovery by complainants. We have granted certiorari, and the case has been argued at the bar. of this Court.

In September 1957 the complainants purchased property known as the County Line Grocery on the Johnson City-Elizabethton highway. In making this purchase, the complainants borrowed…