Causey v. South Carolina Farm Bureau Mutual Fire Insurance

Lewis, Justice.

The respondents’ tobacco barn burned while being occupied for tobacco curing purposes and they recovered judgment against the appellant for loss of their barn under a fire insurance policy issued by the appellant to the respondents. Question arose in the trial as to the type building covered by the terms of the policy. While admitting that *117the building covered by the policy was a tobacco curing barn and that such fact was known to appellant’s agent at the time of the issuance of the policy, the appellant contended in the lower Court that the terms of the policy specifically…