Legal Opinion
Maurice Pincoffs Company v. St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company, American Home Assurance Company
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 14, 1971No. 30760PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RONEY, Circuit Judge:
In this declaratory judgment action, the district court was called upon to determine the meaning of the word “occurrence” in an insurance contract. The court found only a single occurrence under the policy in certain sales of bird seed, which was contaminated at one source prior to sales to several different buyers, 315 F.Supp. 964. We hold that there were several occurrences and reverse.
Since the case was submitted below on a stipulation, there is no dispute as to the material facts.
In January, 1968, Maurice Pincoffs Company imported 110,000 pounds of canary seed from…
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