National-Ben Franklin Insurance Co. v. McSwain

HALLEY, Vice Chief Justice.

Parties will be referred to as in the trial court.

Nettie McSwain owned a concrete block house situated on two twenty-five foot lots in the Town of Ravia, Oklahoma. She carried insurance on this house with the defendant which insured her against damage to the house by wind.

Plaintiff contends that on April 17, 1957, there was a wind storm at Ravia that damaged this house of hers. She went to Mr. W. A. Mason, who was defendant’s agent,, and from whom she had purchased the policy of insurance involved herein and reported the damage to her house. He later came to the…