
    No. 5788.
    Louis Meister vs. Merchants’ Mutual Insurance Co.
    Fraud must be specially pleaded. Evidence of it is inadmissible under the general issue. Movables damaged by fire cannot be abandoned to the insurance company, and a recovery be had of their value before the fire. The insured is entitled to recover the difference between the value of the goods in their damaged condition, and their value when undamaged just before the fire.
    Appeal from the Fifth District Court of New Orleans. Cullom, J.
    
      Tully for Plaintiff. A. & W. Voorhies for Defendant Appellant.
   De Blanc, J.,

delivered the opinion reversing judgment and remanding the case.  