Gates v. General Casualty Co. of America

DENMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment that the appellee insurance company, hereafter called insurer, justifiably had cancelled an insurance policy insuring the R. O. Deacon Lumber Company, a corporation, hereafter called insured, against liability to other persons from injury from the operation of insured’s fleet of lumber trucks, trailers and automobiles operating over a wide area of California. Appellants, widow and children of Elmer Gates, had recovered judgment against the insured for his killing by lumber falling from insured’s truck. They sued the insurer for the…