Legal Opinion
Transit Casualty Company, a Body Corporate v. Transamerica Insurance Company, Successor to American Surety Company of New York
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided December 20, 1967No. 18747PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HEANEY, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal in a diversity action brought in the Eastern District of Missouri. A leased building, located in Detroit, Michigan, was damaged in a windstorm. Thereafter, it was extensively damaged in a fire which occurred while the wind damage was being repaired. Transit Casualty Company 1 paid its insured, the lessee, $255,000 for the fire loss and brought action against the Transamerica Insurance Company 2 al leging that Transamerica had elected to repair the windstorm damage, that the negligence of the subcontractor performing the work caused the fire, and that…
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