United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company v. G. Blitz Welch and Amanda Welch

DUMBAULD, Senior District Judge:

This is an appeal from a summary judgment in favor of G. Blitz Welch and Amanda Welch, his wife (the Welchs) on March 23, 1987 by the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama.

The question we are required to decide involves the interpretation and application, under Alabama law and the circumstances of the case at bar, of the “cooperation clause” in a fire insurance policy.

That clause [Section I — Conditions— 2f(3)], reads:

In case of a loss to covered property, you must see that the following are done:

f. as often as we reasonably require:

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