Insurance Company v. . R. R.

There was allegation and proof to the effect that the plaintiff Royal Insurance Company issued to Bethune-Colwell and Company, a policy of fire insurance for the sum of $5,000, insuring against loss or damage by fire, cotton owned by the insured, and that the other plaintiff Home Insurance Company had issued a policy for the same amount to the same persons for the same purpose. That on 13 October, 1922, Bethune-Colwell and Company, who were cotton buyers in the town of Clinton, N.C. had purchased and placed upon the cotton platform on the defendant's right of way certain lint cotton of the…