Hartford Fire Insurance v. F. Cannon & Co.

FLY, Associate Justice.

Appellees sued for and recovered, before a jury, the sum of $18,000, the amount for which appellant had insured certain bagging in the city of Galveston.

We find as facts, that the insurance company had insured bagging held by appellees for the Ludlow Manufacturing Company amounting in actual value to more than all the insurance thereon, and that the same was destroyed by fire, and that appellant had insured it in the sum of $18,000, and its pro rata of the actual loss amounted to that sum.

A companion case to this has been recently decided by the Court of Civil Appeals…