American Insurance v. Crawford
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Leflore county. Hon. Monroe McClurg, Judge. Suit by J. W. Crawford against the American Insurance Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. There was a conflict in the instructions given to the plaintiff and the defendant in their application to conflicting testimony. This is fatal error.
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Appeal from the circuit court of Leflore county. Hon. Monroe McClurg, Judge. Suit by J. W. Crawford against the American Insurance Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. There was a conflict in the instructions given to the plaintiff and the defendant in their application to conflicting testimony. This is fatal error. To illustrate, take the second instruction for Crawford (Record page 52), wherein the jury was told that although they might believe that there was a Philadelphia Underwriters’ Policy in existence at the…
1Opinion of the CourtPotter, J.
J. W. Crawford, appellee here, was plaintiff in the court below, and filed his suit against the American Insurance Company, the appellant, in the circuit court of Leflore county.
The suit was brought on a fire insurance policy issued by the appellant for three hundred dollars on certain *499.household furniture owned by the appellee and situated in the city of Greenwood, which furniture it was alleged in the declaration was destroyed by fire, and that the plaintiff suffered loss in the full sum of the policy, three hundred dollars.
The defendant pleaded the general issue and set up in the notice…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Grangers' Life Insurance v. BrownMississippi Supreme Court · 1879
- Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance v. Farnsworth Lumber Co.Mississippi Supreme Court · 1895
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- Scottish Union & National Insurance v. Warren Gee Lumber Co.Mississippi Supreme Court · 1918