Providence Washington Insurance v. Weaver

This is a suit brought in the Circuit Court of Chickasaw County by appellee, Elias Weaver, 'Jr., on an insurance policy covering an owner for the accidental death of livestock in transit. The principal issues are whether the circumstantial evidence sufficiently showed that certain cattle which were never found died as the result of overturning of the truck, and whether the insurance company is estopped to deny the validity of a method of adjustment of the amount of loss for certain injured cattle sold by agreement with appellant’s agents. The jury returned a verdict for plaintiff in the…