Home Insurance v. Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Quin

Affirming.

*779A house owned by T. J. Crowe, in the town of Walton, was destroyed by fire about two o’clock in the afternoon of June 2, 1914. The property was situated between the rights-of-way of the appellee on the east and the L. & N. R. R. Co., on the west. It was insured for $1,000.00 in the appellant company and for a like amount in the Hartford Insurance Company. The company having settled the loss, an assignment was taken for the amount paid and this suit instituted to recover the amount of said policy, it being alleged that the loss was due to the…