Alabama Farm Bureau Mutual Casualty Insurance Co. v. Williams

TORBERT, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal by defendant Alabama Farm Bureau Mutual Casualty Insurance Company (hereinafter “Farm Bureau”), from a judgment entered on a jury verdict in favor of the plaintiffs, Alfred Williams and Frances Williams, in an action to recover on an insurance policy. The relevant facts are as follows:

In March 1981, the Williamses took out a policy of fire insurance with Farm Bureau through Farm Bureau’s agent, defendant Jimmy Holderfield, on a house owned by them and financed with First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Jasper, Alabama (hereinafter “First…