Guest Printing Co. v. American Insurance

Duckworth, Chief Justice.

The plaintiff’s right to recover under the policy of insurance depends upon a finding of fact that the antenna was blown down by a windstorm, and that the water which caused the damage passed through the holes made in the roof by the fall of the antenna. Discussing this point the Court of Appeals pointed out that the cause of the fall of the antenna could have been (1) accumulation of ice thereon, (2) improper anchorage, or (3) windstorm. That court then erroneously concluded that any one of these causes was equally as likely as the others, and applied the rule that…