GROVES v. AUTO OWNERS INSURANCE COMPANY

No. CIV-4-77-25.

459 F.Supp. 490 (1978)

Otis GROVES et al., Plaintiffs and Defendants-by-Counterclaim, v. The AUTO OWNERS INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant and Plaintiff-by-Counterclaim.

United States District Court, E. D. Tennessee, Winchester Division.

June 20, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard K. Smith, Smith & Stanley, McMinnville, Tenn., and Clinton H. Swafford, Swafford, Davis & Peters, Winchester, Tenn., for plaintiffs.

Douglas M. Fisher, Nashville, Tenn., for defendant.


RULING ON EVIDENCE

NEESE, District Judge.

It is a claim of the defendant herein that the fire loss herein was set by, or in behalf of, the plaintiffs. Each plaintiff sought to testify that he has not been charged, in the two years intervening since such loss, with the crime of arson. The defendant objected to such evidence.

The general rule is that evidence that an insured has or has not been indicted for arson is inadmissible. 46 C.J.S. Insurance...

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