Guardian Underwriters Department, South Carolina Insurance Co. of Columbia v. Snider

Defendant moves for an appeal from a judgment awarding plaintiff $928.80 as damages for hail and windstorm damage to a tobacco crop covered by defendant’s insurance policy. Defendant’s ground of reversal is that the court improperly allowed the introduction of incompetent evidence. This evidence consisted of percentage estimates of the damage to the crop testified to by neighboring farmers who had seen the crop hung in the barn.

Defendant contends that in Fidelity Phenix Fire Insurance Company of New York v. Henry, 248 Ky. 818, 60 S.W.2d 111, we declared incompetent any percentage estimates of…