Legal Opinion
McMahon v. People's National Fire Insurance
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided April 2, 1917No. 6969PublishedCited by 1 opinion
Appeal from the Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans, No. 114,957, Division “D”; Honorable Porter Parker, Judge.
1Opinion of the Court
His Honor,
JOHN ST. PAUL,
rendered the opinion and decree of the Court, as follows:
*270This is an action upon a policy , of tornado insurance. The risk assumed by the defendant was upon “a two-story-frame building with slate roof, and .its additions, adjoining and communicating, occupied as a dwelling house.”
The two-story dwelling house was damaged by storm to the extent of $760, which the defendant paid.
On the same lot of ground there was a one-story outhouse used partly as a garage and partly as servant’s quarters; entirely detached from the main building, and distant some thirty feet therefrom;…
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