Maguire v. Federal Crop Insurance

PORTERIE District Judge.

This is an action on a policy of cotton crop insurance, issued March 25, 1946, by *241defendant to the plaintiff, under the Federal Crop Insurance Act of February 16, 1938 as amended, 7 U.S.C. § 1501 et seq., 7 U.S.C.A. § 1501 et seq.

In her complaint plaintiff alleges harvesting only 3,236 pounds of lint cotton, with a consequent loss to her in 1946 of 20,119 pounds in terms of lint cotton less than the established average yield, on 219 acres of land in Red River Parish, Louisiana, due to unavoidable causes, and that said policy of insurance covers this loss.

Defendant…