Yeager v. Farmers Mutual Insurance

CLECKLEY, Justice:

This case involves two certified questions from the Circuit Court of Harrison County relating to whether a farmers’ mutual fire insurance policy is subject to the valued policy law under W.Va.Code, 33-17-9 (1957). For the following reasons, we hold it is not.

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On May 1, 1988, the plaintiffs, Clarence and Margaret Yeager, and another individual, who is not a party to this action, entered into a lease-purchase agreement for some property in Harrison County. According to the plaintiffs, the total purchase price of the land and the two homes situated upon the land was $35,000.…