MERCHANTS' FIRE A. CO. v. CANTRELL

No. 39180.

220 Miss. 877 (1954)

72 So.2d 143

63 Adv. S. 38

MERCHANTS' FIRE ASSUR. CO. v. CANTRELL.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

May 3, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mitchell & McNutt, Tupelo, for appellant.

Jesse M. Coleman, Thomas F. Paine, Aberdeen, for appellee.


ARRINGTON, J.

The appellee, W.H. Cantrell, filed suit in the Circuit Court of Monroe County against the Merchants' Fire Assurance Corporation to recover the proceeds of a $1,000 fire insurance policy. Upon motion of the defendant, appellant here, the suit was transferred to the chancery court. From a decree for the appellee for the amount sued for, the appellant prosecutes this appeal.

The appellant denied liability for the reason that a deed of trust on the...

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