Austin Building Co. v. National Union Fire Insurance Co.

DIXON, Chief Justice.

Appellant Austin Building Company, a Texas corporation, hereinafter called Austin, brought suit against National Union Fire Insurance Company, a Pennsylvania corporation, hereinafter called National Union, on a fire insurance policy.

Austin alleged that on March 2, 1962 it had entered into a building contract with Western Light & Telephone Company, hereinafter called Western, to construct an addition to one of Western’s buildings at the latter’s Arthur Mullergren Station near Great Bend, Kansas. The consideration was $1,527,000. National Union issued its builders’ risk…