Johnson v. Reliance Insurance

In this suit on a fire insurance policy to recover the loss of a small grocery stock destroyed by fire, the jury found for the insurance company. Such being the verdict, we accept and state the facts from that standpoint although many of them were not agreed to but were contested at the trial.

Plaintiffs, Bertha Johnson and Rose Anderman,. daughters of one Leo Anderman, started a small grocery store at 8229 Independence road, Kansas City. The father was in full charge and control of same as apparent owner. He rented the building for the store and passed himself off to the owner of the building…