Cohrt v. Sun Insurance Office, Ltd.

Respondent Priscilla Cohrt, plaintiff below, sued the defendant insurance company to recover for the collapse of the roof and a wall of a warehouse in Mitchell, South Dakota under the windstorm provisions of an insurance policy issued by defendant. Defendant denied that wind was the cause of the damage and injected into the case the question of collapse due to causes excluded by the policy, particularly to deterioration of the building due to age, to poor design of the roof and to the weight of snow. The case was tried to the court without a jury on stipulation and resulted in a judgment for…