(DOWNLOAD) "Allstate Insurance Company v. Helen Chance" by Supreme Court of Texas No. B-8587 * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Allstate Insurance Company v. Helen Chance
- Author : Supreme Court of Texas No. B-8587
- Release Date : January 07, 1979
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 67 KB
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This is a suit on a fire insurance policy, seeking damages for a total loss of a dwelling and the household goods located in it. Mrs. Chance, the plaintiff, sought to prove the value of her household goods by means of a list she prepared, giving the approximate cost and age of each item and where it was purchased. Based upon this material, she sought to testify that it represented the value at the time of loss. She was not allowed to testify to a total of about $8,000 but the list itself was admitted in evidence. Allstate's adjuster, working from a similar list supplied by Mrs. Chance, arrived at a value of $3,963.41. The jury found the value of the household goods to be $6,000 and the trial court awarded judgment accordingly. The Court of Civil Appeals (582 S.W.2d 530) held that the testimony and list of Mrs. Chance was not proper or competent evidence of the actual cash value of the items at the time of loss, but that the testimony of Allstate's adjuster properly determined the actual cash value and that there was no evidence contradictory to his testimony.