The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-04-03
NORR|SCOMPLA|N
Why $4,000 is Asked
as Damages.
AGAINST North Carolina Home for Al.
locations in its Answer That
House Was Burned by Agent
of Alleged Owner.

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Of Mrs. g.. A. Norris. wife OF Nh. Il.
4. Norris, Of this city. Tor $5e,2a9
damages against the North Cdrollrd
Home Insurance Company FOR alleged
false and dcfamatory language Wla
filed with the clerk OF the court here
yesterday.
The suit comes about from tac
burning of the W. II. Norris home
stead in BucknoIn township on the
night Of November II. last. This WAS
owned by Mrs. {. A.. Norris and was
insured in the North Carolina Home
for $500, and the company declined
payment suit WAS started by MIS-.
Norris for the insurance, and the
North Carolina Home, in its answer,
based its refusal to pay ON the ground
that the property was worth aoodt
$3.50 and also that. as it was Informed
and believes, the property was burned
by IAN agent III the interest of the
alleged owner, in order that size might
recover the said insurance. Mrs.
Norris the mex day mad summons IN
a libel suit issued against the North
Carolina Home alleging false and de-
faInatOry statements.
Shortly after this the State InsGr-
ance Department had Mr.. NJ. 4. Nor.l.
arrested charged with burning the
house. and his trial ook place on
Friday Of last week. Magistrate So
park, presiding. held his decision til
Monday last and at that time Mt.
Norris attorneys asked the court %
consider atfidayits from Mr.. NJ. +.
Norris. his brother and Miss Alice
Vivian Strong, Of Atlanta. a visitor at
the Norris home, that j. j. Thomas,
L State witness had since the t1ial
some to the nome at night night alta
said that he had done Mr.. Norris an
injustice in saying that he had seen Il
light as Of a candle in the house
burned, that it was m~oonshine tua1
ne saw. The state agreed 10 a furthe4
hearing and Thomas has BEEN sum
moned to the hearing Friday.
The Action for $4,000.
In the complaint Of Mrs. {. y. Nor
ris against the North Carolina Home
Insurance Company fled yesterday
he allegations set forth in the first
four sections that Mrs. G.. a. NorrsS
mas been many years q resident here,
that the North Carolina Home IN
5urdnce Company is Il corporation 81
the state, that Mrs. {. \. Norris on
November IL and prior owned a tract
Of 81 acres on the Avents Ferry road,
adjoining the lands of II. +. Norris.
j. j. Thomas, Mrs. CorneIia \. Nor
us and others, known as the w II.
Norris HON tract, upon which was
located a tWo-story frame house which
was burned r consumed b. fire on
he night Of November 18th. The firth
paragraph reads:
.. That at the time of said fire
ne said building and additions at
dcned were insured in the said de-
endan company in tho sum Of $500
md the aid insurance at that time
vas for the benefit Of the plaintiff
%. That on Of about the 18th ana
- u Il - - 900 1aAr
|cfS other occasions prior to the in
titution Of this suit, as the ~plaiutitl.
$ informed ana believes. he abDv.
hamed defendant corporation maiici-'
'uSIy ana with intent to dcfraud and
nJure the plaintiff, uttered ana pub
lShed the following false and dcfanl-|
itory words to Wit. .-ruat
ne SAID fire. meanins there
2E the fire referred IT, Fiji uar.-
ram Tour above by which said
)uildlnS (nCaning thereby ia.
i"riIlnS house II additions d.sctfG-
"a I'D paragraph three above) w.
WAS the work Of an iu-I
ehdierN and the circumstances "a
"hdlng said burning Were such thal
rs defendant (m@aning thcreb. fur
tpofe hdlnea corForation) us iarelm-i
81 ana believes that the same was.
one ~ some one in the Interest Of
~ dlicGed owner Cmcanin2 thcrct,,
ne above named PLAINTIFF land i..i
'fdsf mat she might recover tl.,i
mount - said insurance" (ueanin1i
hereby Tho insurance referred u +.
}ardsrapn five abovc.)
~Pdf3Srabh seven is in words -
iooNe except that Of tac chat-.
i9ainst the North Carolina Home TIE
~diIelSalIons are that it said lis in
formed and believes that the same wa
zone by al agent (mcaning an agent
- the paintiff above nafnc,D iii tie .
interest of the said owner. T. pail-l
Iidph eISht the allegations are lnati
nee corporation. 'as tire Dlairtin j4i
informed and believes Uttered and
pup1Shed' OF and concerning the -,ilt
pialn'iff certain false and dcfamatorv
of like import ana m-eanur.ll
WIN those particularly set forth ~
! a~ragraph six and seven Of thin con
plant O"
~FoIloWinG otncr legal phrases con-
1tfhlng the matter the plaintiff -
cldlIncd u be cndamagcd in tho .u,.t
= 2'o'o0o. and : Judgment for shie
ma the C4-f III fb.. ,,tf !