Georgia Home Ins. Co. v. Kline
Decision Date | 13 April 1897 |
Parties | GEORGIA HOME INS. CO. v. KLINE ET AL. |
Court | Alabama Supreme Court |
Appeal from city court of Birmingham; H. A. Sharpe, Judge.
Action by H. A. Kline & Co. against the Georgia Home Insurance Company to recover on a policy of fire insurance. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendant appeals. Reversed.
Alex T London and John London, for appellant.
Cabaniss & Weakley, for appellees.
The plaintiffs sued the defendant insurance company for the loss by fire of a stock of merchandise insured by the defendant. The policy contained the following stipulation: Differences having arisen, the appraisers and umpire were duly selected, and they entered upon the discharge of their duties and made their award in writing. There was also a separate agreement of submission entered into in writing by the parties after the loss occurred, as follows: The award was as follows:
The defendant pleaded in bar of the action the agreement contained in the policy, the special agreement of submission and the award, and, further, alleged payment by the defendant to the plaintiffs of the sum awarded to them. The plaintiffs replied that a large portion of the property covered by the policy was wholly consumed and destroyed in said fire, to wit, to the amount of $2,500, and of said property so destroyed there were no remnants or remains, but the same was wholly consumed and reduced to ashes; that for some reason, unknown to them, the arbitrators did not undertake, and refused and declined, to appraise or pass upon either the sound value of, or the loss upon, the property so wholly consumed and destroyed, but only appraised and estimated the sound value and loss and damage of the property...
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