Kelley v. Shelter Mutual Insurance

PREWITT, Presiding Judge.

Plaintiff Jean Kelley sued defendant Shelter Mutual Insurance Co. and Dennis McCarty for negligence. A jury rendered a verdict in plaintiff’s favor against both defendants for $8,000. Judgment was entered accordingly. Defendants appeal.

The count of plaintiff’s petition submitted to the jury alleged that plaintiff secured insurance from defendant Shelter, covering fire and other losses to a mobile home owned by her, from defendant McCarty, an insurance agent for defendant Shelter. She claimed that on August 30, 1980, he bound coverage which defendant Shelter terminated…