Hardin v. Home Ins. Co.

Dr. J. A. Hardin, plaintiff in the court below, brought suit for slander against the Home Insurance Company and L. P. Abel, its adjuster, the first count charging that the Home Insurance Company was engaged in the insurance business in New York, and was authorized to and was transacting the business of fire insurance in Calhoun county, Mississippi, and elsewhere in the state, having for its statutory agent the insurance commissioner; that on or about the 28th day of August, 1929, the .company issued to Dr. Hardin a policy of insurance against loss by fire from August 17, 1929, to August 17,…