Legal Opinion
Firemen's Mut. Ins. Co. v. Aponaug Mfg. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 11, 1945No. 11270PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.
This appeal is from a summary judgment for the defendants on a complaint brought by appellants against the appellees for damages as for a tort. The plaintiffs alleged that they were insurers against loss by fire of a cotton mill belonging to Aponaug Mfg. Co., Inc., when on Dec. 21, 1938, R. D. Sanders, its president and treasurer and sole stockholder, and exercising sole control over the corporation, in conspiracy with the mill superintendent, C. D. Kent, and one Noel McMahan, burned the mill to collect the insurance, and that $187,634 was paid on a statement of loss in…
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