Legal Opinion
Reichman v. United States Fire Insurance
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 9, 1987No. 86-2072PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
United States Fire Insurance Co. issued to David Reichman a policy of insurance on a DC-3 airplane. The airplane was stolen promptly after the policy issued in July 1982 and later was impounded by Colombia as an instrumentality of the drug trade. Andrew Kilgus filed a petition in bankruptcy in September 1982, and the next month the trustee of Kilgus’s estate filed an adversary proceeding against Reichman and U.S. Fire. The complaint alleged that Reichman and Kilgus were joint owners of the airplane and that Reichman had defrauded Kilgus by obtaining the insurance…
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