Insurance Company v. Shearman

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment on a special verdict in favor of appellee in the sum of $1700, the amount of a fire insurance policy issued by appellant company to M. A. Parish, January 15, 1896, and assigned to appellee after the fire, which, on May 23, 1896, in the city of Denison, destroyed the stock of merchandise and store fixtures insured, then of the aggregate value of $3659.63, as found by the jury.

It is first insisted that the judgment must be reversed because the special verdict failed to find the fact of the alleged assignment of the policy, though this…