United States Fire Insurance Co. v. Western

OPINION

HUGHES, Justice.

United States Fire Insurance Company (USFICO), has appealed a judgment rendered after a jury verdict which gave J. T. Western and wife a recovery against it on a Texas standard fire insurance policy.

We reverse and render.

The Westerns alleged that Dan Gibson, acting as their insurance agent requested that the Bullett Abshire Agency, a local recording agent of USFICO, renew a fire insurance policy dated March 20, 1974. Ab-shire bound the coverage, delivering a policy of insurance dated March 20, 1975 to Mike Wright who had succeeded Gibson as agent for Westerns. The…