Continental Insurance v. Thrash

This appeal involves four policies of insurance issued to the appellee, Emmett Ross Thrash, by the Continental Insurance Company, New Hampshire Fire Insurance Company, Paramount Fire Insurance Company, and National Fire Insurance Company of Hartford, insuring the appellee’s concrete block building for $6,000, and the contents thereof for $4,500, as against loss by fire, the liability of the said companies being pro rata. The building and contents located in Sebastapol, in Scott County, Mississippi, were wholly destroyed by fire on June 16, 1953. The loss as to both items, that is, the…