Hartford Fire Insurance v. Wright
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Palo Pinto County. Tried below before Hon. E. B. Ritchie.
1Opinion of the Court
CONNER, Chief Justice.
— This is an appeal from a judgment in the sum of five hundred dollars for loss by fire upon a policy of insurance issued by the appellant company on the 30th of September, 1907. In defense, among other things, appellant pleaded a clause in the policy of insurance which provided that the policy should be void “if the subject of insurance be personal property and be or become encumbered by a chattel mortgage.” To which appellee replied in a supplemental petition that the agent of the appellant company, who issued the policy, at and before the time-thereof had full notice…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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