State v. Phoenix Fire Ins. Co.
Decision Date | 18 March 1893 |
Citation | 21 S.W. 893,92 Tenn. 420 |
Parties | STATE v. PHENIX FIRE INS. CO. OF BROOKLYN. |
Court | Tennessee Supreme Court |
Appeal from circuit court, Davidson county; W. K. McAllister, Judge.
Cause submitted on agreement of facts between the state of Tennessee, styled plaintiff, and the Phenix Fire Insurance Company of Brooklyn, N. Y., defendant. Defendant had judgment, and plaintiff appeals. Reversed.
The Attorney General, for the State.
Vertrees & Vertrees and P. D. Maddin, for appellee.
This cause was tried in the circuit court of Davidson county before Hon. W. K. McAllister, J., upon an agreed statement of facts. Judgment was rendered against the state, from which it appealed, and, through the attorney general, has assigned errors. The judge in the court below delivered a written opinion, in which the facts are set out at length, the conclusions of the trial judge are stated, and the reasons upon which these conclusions are based are given, with the force and clearness usual with that learned judge. The opinion is as follows:
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