Legal Opinion
Frankel v. J. WATSON CO. HARTFORD FIRE INS. CO
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided October 17, 1985PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
This case presents two questions reported by a judge of the Superior Court. See Mass.R.Civ.P. 64, 365 Mass. 831 (1974). At issue is whether an exclusionary clause in a comprehensive general liability policy issued by Hartford Fire Insurance Company (the insurer) to J. Watson Company, Inc. (the insured), applies to damages to the superstructure of the plaintiffs’ home allegedly caused by the insured’s faulty construction of a foundation.
The plaintiffs contracted with the insured to move their old farmhouse to an alternate site, to construct a roadway to the new site, to install underground…
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