South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. v. Aetna Life Insurance

Legge, Justice.

By separate policies Aetna Life Insurance Company and thirty-seven other insurance companies covered all of the real and personal property of South Carolina Electric & Gas Company against loss or damage by fire, liability under each policy being limited to the proportion of any such loss or damage that the amount of the policy should bear to the total coverage. Plaintiff brought this action against said companies, alleging that as the result of a fire on June 27, 1950, that had damaged and partially destroyed a Westinghouse generator belonging to it and located in its Saluda…