Legal Opinion

Fratto v. New Amsterdam Fire Insurance

Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Decided April 29, 1966No. Nos. 15510-15513PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Per curiam

These are four appeals from judgments growing out of an explosion and fire at the Silver Fox Inn at Foxburg in the Western District of Pennsylvania. The four cases were consolidated for trial and were tried by the court without a jury. The case brought by the Frattos, the owners of the Inn, against the insurance companies, No. 63-507 (Civil) in the court below, was dismissed for lack of jurisdictional amount. The appeal from the judgment of dismissal at our No. 15510, was withdrawn in open court at the beginning of the argument before us. No other course was feasible. The appeals at our Nos.…

2Cases cited2 opinions

Fratto v. Northern Insurance Company of New YorkDistrict Court, W.D. Pennsylvania · 1965
Klein v. Auto Owners InsuranceDistrict Court, D. Minnesota · 1965

3Cited by1 opinion

Dominick and Rosina Fratto, Individually and T/d/b/a Silver Fox Inn v. New Amsterdam Fire Insurance Company, a Foreign Corporation, Intervenors. Dominick and Rosina Fratto, Individually and T/d/b/a Silver Fox Inn v. New Amsterdam Fire Insurance Company, a Foreign Corporation, and Crawford Lieberum, Alvin G. Barr, Paul Lieberum and Helen Lieberum, His Wife, Intervenors. Dominick and Rosina Fratto, Individually and Trading and Doing Business as Silver Fox Inn v. Northern Insurance Company of New York, a New York Corporation, and Crawford Lieberum, Alvin G. Barr, Paul Lieberum and Helen Lieberum, His Wife, Intervenors. Dominick and Rosina Fratto, Individually and Trading and Doing Business as Silver Fox Inn v. The Home Insurance Company of New York, a New York Corporation, and Crawford Lieberum, Alvin Barr, Paul Lieberum and Helen Lieberum, His Wife, IntervenorsCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1966