North River Insurance Company v. Pomerantz

COULSON, Justice.

This is a suit by Donald Pomerantz and Melvin Pomerantz, appellees here and plaintiffs in the trial court, on an insurance policy issued by the North River Insurance Company, appellant here and defendant in the trial court, to recover for property damage, occurring on July 26, 1969, to appellees’ apartment units located in Houston, Texas. The claim arose from an incident in which a backhoe tractor was being used to dig a ditch to lay a replacement sewer line on appellees’ property. While engaged in this digging operation, the bucket of the backhoe allegedly came in contact…