Wyoming Farm Bureau Mutual Ins. Co., a Corp. v. Curtis L. Smith and Jamie L. Smith

POPE, Circuit Judge.

In this case the appellant Insurance Company brought suit in the court below seeking a declaratory judgment to the effect that no contract for fire insurance existed between itself and the appellee defendants at the time defendants’ poultry house and contents were destroyed by fire. The defendants counterclaimed asserting that plaintiff had ip fact insured them against loss by fire and asked for damages on account of the fire referred to. In the court below the defendants had judgment on their counterclaim in the sum of $17,934, the court holding that the loss by fire was…