Badger By-Products Co. v. Employers Mutual Casualty Co.

REYNOLDS, Chief Judge.

This is an action by Badger By-Products Co., and Benjamin J. Free, hereinafter “Badger”, to recover on a “business interruption” insurance policy issued by the defendant Employers Mutual Casualty Company, hereinafter “Casualty Company”. The case was referred to a Special Master pursuant to Rule 53(b), Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. For the reasons detailed below, the report of the Master is accepted, and his findings of fact and conclusions of law are adopted as the Court’s own.

The insurance policy involved here was issued on June 17, 1968. On April 8, 1969, a fire…