Tucker v. Colonial Fire Insurance
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Wood County. Action by J. W. Tucker against the Colonial Fire Insurance Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
Cox, Judge:
This is a writ of error by the Colonial Fire Insurance Company to a judgment of the circuit court of Wood county, for one thousand dollars rendered against it in favor of J. W, Tucker, in an action of assumpsit upon a fire insurance policy. The declaration is in statutory form. The first of the many errors assigned, is the admission in evidence of the policy sued on, or rather a copy of the policy, the original being so charred by the fire that to have opened it would have resulted in its destruction. The objection is not on the ground that a copy was introduced, but on the ground *33t…
2Cases cited31 opinions
- Moulor v. American Life InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1884
- National Bank v. Insurance Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1878
- Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance v. KearneySupreme Court of the United States · 1901
- Brown v. Palatine Insurance Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1896
- Ketterman v. Dry Fork Railroad Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1900
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