Legal Opinion
Riggs v. Aetna Insurance
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided January 12, 1983No. 82-188PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Per curiam
Appellant seeks review of a judgment rendered by the trial court, without a jury, that appellant is not entitled to recover $25,000 under the terms of her Yachtsman insurance contract with appellee for the accidental sinking of appellant’s houseboat, the Cinnabar, on the Potomac River on October 7, 1979. Appellant contends that the trial court erred in its finding that the Cinnabar was being chartered at the time of its sinking and in its conclusion that appellant was in violation of the “Private Pleasure Only” clause of the insurance contract, precluding appellant’s recovery under the…
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