Home Insurance v. Fain

Where in a petition it is alleged that the defendant, an insurance company, had, through its agent who solicited and obtained from the plaintiff an application for a policy of fire insurance, and received from him a cash payment to be applied towards the payment of the premium on the policy applied for, and after receiving the ap*633plication and the money, and before the application was acted upon, fraudulently and falsely represented to the plaintiff that a policy would be issued to him, and that in the meantime the property in question was covered by insurance; and whore it is alleged that the…