Hartford Fire Ins. v. Peebles' Hotel Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to tlie Circuit Court of the United- States for tlie Eastern District of Tennessee. This was an action a.t law by the Peebles’ Hotel Company against the Hartford Eire Insurance Company, the Phoenix Insurance Company of Hartford, the American Fire Insurance Company, the Vir.ginia Eire & Marine Insurance Company, the Georgia Home Tnsur-auce Company, tlie Lancashire Insurance.
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In Error to tlie Circuit Court of the United- States for tlie Eastern District of Tennessee. This was an action a.t law by the Peebles’ Hotel Company against the Hartford Eire Insurance Company, the Phoenix Insurance Company of Hartford, the American Fire Insurance Company, the Vir.ginia Eire & Marine Insurance Company, the Georgia Home Tnsur-auce Company, tlie Lancashire Insurance. Company, and the Koval Insurance Company, to recover damages alleged to have resulted from the failure of defendants to employ suitable workmanship and materials in repairing a building damaged by fire, tlie…
1Opinion of the Court
LURTON, Circuit Judge.
An hotel building owned by the defendant in error was insured in several fire insurance companies for a sum aggregating $38,500. Each policy was for a distinct sum, and eons!ituted a separate contract, though each contract contained the usual clause requiring an apportionment of loss between all the insurers. While this concurrent insurance was in force, an accidental fire occurred, by which the property was partially destroyed. There was disagreement as to the amount of the loss, and an ineffectual effort at settlement by arbitration. Each policy contained a provision…
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- Heilmann v. . Westchester Fire Ins. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1878
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