General Insurance Co. of America v. Davis

Felton, Chief Judge.

The hazard insured against in the insurance policy in this case is direct damage by windstorm. “Windstorm” is not defined in the policy and various courts have applied a definition where the policy gives none. That definition, as combined from several foreign cases, is generally and substantially: “a wind of sufficient violence to be capable of damaging the insured property, either by its own unaided *810action, or by projecting some object against it; that is to say, that any wind that is of such extraordinary force and violence as to thereby injuriously disturb the ordinary…