Home Fire Insurance v. Johnson

Ryan, C.

This action was prosecuted in the Nuckolls county district court for the amount of loss sustained by defendant in error, by the burning of his building insured by plaintiff in error. There was a verdict and judgment for the amount of insurance named in the policy, with interest.

The first error assigned is that the court improperly denied plaintiff in error a continuance upon the showing made of the absence of defendant in error and of C. J. Slater. By these witnesses it was claimed in this showing that the insurance company would be able to show, in support of the averments of its…