Legal Opinion

Beautytuft, Inc., Jorges Carpet Mills, Inc., and Moccasin Bend Carpet Mills, Inc. v. Factory Insurance Association

Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Decided September 2, 1970No. 20075_1PublishedCited by 40 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

EDWARDS, Circuit Judge.

Appellants in this case are 58 insurance companies and their agent, the Factory Insurance Association, which insured the three appellee carpet manufacturers against “business interruption” due to fire.

Appellees sued on the insurance policy to recover for business losses which resulted when a fire destroyed the manufacturing facilities then occupied by the three companies on the premises of the Rossville Development Corporation (hereinafter referred to as RDC) at Rossville, Georgia.

The maximum coverage of the policy was $1,188,000, and after a jury trial before the…

2Cases cited17 opinions

  1. United Mine Workers of America v. GibbsSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
  2. Perkins v. Benguet Consolidated Mining Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1952
  3. Southern MacHine Company, Inc. v. Mohasco Industries, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1968
  4. Jacobson v. Atlantic City HospitalCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1968
  5. Lewis v. PenningtonCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1968

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3Cited by40 opinions

  1. Moor v. County of AlamedaSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
  2. Wells Fargo & Co. v. Wells Fargo Express Co.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1977
  3. Duane Reade Inc., Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellee v. St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company, Defendant-Counter-Claimant-AppellantCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2005
  4. The Northern Trust Company, an Illinois Corporation v. Bunge Corporation, a New York CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1990
  5. W. D. Lawson & Company and Washington General Insurance Company v. Penn Central Company and Fort Worth & Denver Railway CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1972

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