Legal Opinion
Carva Food Corporation v. Equitable Fire and Marine Insurance Company of Providence, Rhode Island, and Third-Party and William B. Dawley, Third-Party
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided November 12, 1958No. 7690PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judge.
On October 15, 1954 Hurricane Hazel unroofed a building in Norfolk, Virginia, in which Carva Food Corporation had a stock of goods. As the wind tore off the roof the pipes of a sprinkler system attached to the roof were ruptured, and the escaping water from the broken pipes damaged the stock of goods. Evidently Carva had no hurricane or extended coverage insurance upon the stock of goods, but it did have a sprinkler leakage policy containing a clear and unequivocal provision that loss by sprinkler leakage caused directly, or indirectly, by windstorm was not among the…
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