Legal Opinion
Hargrove v. American Cent. Ins. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided January 16, 1942No. 2293PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MURRAH, Circuit Judge.
The appellant Hargrove, herein called insured, was the owner of a building on the outskirts of Muskogee, Oklahoma, which he operated as a road house or night club. On August 2, 1939, some time after twelve thirty a.m., the building and its contents were completely destroyed by fire.
The insurance companies, as insurors under various policies of insurance covering the building and its contents, successfully prosecuted a suit under the Federal Declaratory Judgment Act, 28 U.S.C.A. § 400, to declare their nonliability under the policies. The appellant, as the insured, has…
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