Calvert Fire Ins. Co. v. Swain

On January 29, 1951, the defendant, Calvert Fire Insurance Company, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, issued unto the plaintiff, George F. Swain, Jr., an insurance policy on a certain Dodge motor truck to protect him against loss to the extent of its actual cash value from destruction by either fire, theft or collision. This Dodge motor truck, along with one GMC and two Ford trucks, was purchased by the insured about the middle of January 1951 from the East End Motor Company at Columbus, Mississippi, on the occasion when the said company purchased all of the trucks from one S. B. Platt. The…