Skidmore v. Star Insurance Co. of America

Fox, Judge:

The Star Insurance Company of America complains of the judgment of the Circuit Court of Webster County, entered on the verdict of the jury, in a law action in which plaintiff sought to recover on an insurance policy issued to him by the defendant. The parties will be referred to as they stood in the court below.

On October 21, 1939, plaintiff purchased from the Board of Education of Webster County an abandoned school building, for which he agreed to pay the sum of two hundred seventy dollars. Of this amount ten dollars was paid in cash, and notes in equal amounts executed for the…