Harkins v. Indiana Lumbermens Mut. Ins. Co. of Indianapolis, Ind.

CODY, Justice.

This is a suit by an automobile dealer to recover upon a policy of insurance issued to him by the defendant insurance company for the loss of an automobile, which loss occurred under the circumstances hereafter stated. Among the defenses pled by the insurance company was one that the plaintiff sustained no loss directly or proximately caused by the peril insured against. And the controlling question in the case is whether the loss sustained falls within the risks covered by the terms of the policy.

In basic form the policy sued on was a “Texas Standard Automobile Policy, Physical…