General Accident Fire & Life Assurance Corp. v. Frito-Lay Co.

Yetka, Justice.

Appeal from the judgment of the Olmsted County District Court dismissing appellants’ actions and from its order denying a new trial. Both of these actions, which were consolidated for trial, arose out of a fire June 8, 1971, in a Rochester warehouse owned by respondents Phillip and Richard Hailing, d.b.a. Hailing Agency, Inc., and leased by respondent Frito-Lay Company. Appellants, both insurance companies, are seeking a recovery of the amounts paid their respective insureds for the losses they sustained as a result of the fire. The actions were tried to a jury. However, at the…