Stokes v. American Central Ins.

This was a suit by C. M. Stokes to recover from American Central Insurance Company on a fire insurance policy which covered household effects and personal property. The cause was transferred from the circuit to the chancery court. The pleadings were recast, and after the hearing, the original bill was dismissed, and the prayer of the cross bill was granted. Stokes appeals.

C. M. Stokes and Mrs; Doxie Stokes had been married about twelve years. They jointly owned a home in the City of Laurel, where they lived with an only daughter. On April 6, 1944, Stokes procured from the insurance company a…