KITT v. HOME INDEM. CO.

No. 31884.

153 Ohio St. 505 (1950)

KITT ET AL., D. B. A. EMPIRE COIN MACHINE EXCHANGE AND/OR GILBERT DISTRIBUTING CO., APPELLANTS, v. THE HOME INDEMNITY CO., APPELLEE.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided May 17, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Ginocchio & Ginocchio, for appellants.

Messrs. Gallagher, Dorr & Manley, for appellee.


ZIMMERMAN, J.

Was a directed verdict for the defendant proper under the evidence presented?

Claims of nonliability under insurance contracts are not favored by the courts; and this court on several occasions has refused to declare policies of insurance avoided because of a change in status of the insured property or the insured.

Thus, in West v. Citizens' Ins. Co., 27 Ohio St. 1, 22 Am. Rep., 294, the holding was that a policy of insurance...

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