Legal Opinion
Morton v. Great American Insurance Company
New Mexico Supreme Court
Decided October 10, 1966No. 7820PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
NOBLE, Justice.
Great American Insurance Company (hereafter referred to as Insurance Company) • has appealed from a judgment against it and in favor of Craig Morton, its insured, arising under its policy of insurance covering the “collapse of building(s) or any part thereof, * *
Briefly, the court found that a structural engineer, upon inspection, determined that one pier supporting the first floor of the Morton house had tilted about ten degrees from vertical; that three other piers had tilted to some degree from vertical; that by reason thereof part of the first floor settled about one…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Hoyt v. New Hampshire Fire InsuranceSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1942
- Braly v. Commercial Casualty InsuranceSupreme Court of Kansas · 1951
- Brown v. Arapahoe Drilling CompanyNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1962
- Central Mutual Insurance Co. v. RoyalSupreme Court of Alabama · 1959
- Jenkins v. United States Fire InsuranceSupreme Court of Kansas · 1959
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3Cited by17 opinions
- Olmstead v. Lumbermens Mutual Ins.Ohio Supreme Court · 1970
- Government Employees Insurance v. DeJamesCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1970
- United Nuclear Corp. v. Allendale Mutual InsuranceNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1985
- Beach v. Middlesex Mutual Assurance Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1987
- Pacific Indemnity Company v. KohlhaseCourt of Appeals of Arizona · 1969
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