Legal Opinion
Broome v. Allstate Insurance Company
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided November 23, 1977No. 54448PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Banke, Judge.
This is a case involving construction of a homeowner’s insurance contract. The appellant’s home was damaged when a portion of one of the foundation walls collapsed. He sued Allstate, his insurer, to collect for the loss, joining the seller and the contractor as co-defendants. The trial court granted summary judgment to Allstate, leaving the case pending against the other defendants, and this appeal followed.
Allstate engaged the services of an engineer to investigate the cause of the wall’s collapse. His opinion was that water had leaked from a faulty swing joint connecting the…
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- Central Georgia Electric Membership Corp. v. Georgia Power Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1961
- Aetna Fire Underwriters Insurance v. CrawleyCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1974
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