International Dairy Engineering Co. v. American Home Assurance Co.

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

SWEIGERT, District Judge.

This case has been submitted for decision after trial before the court without a jury.

Plaintiff, operator of a milk processing plant near Thu Due Village, about five miles east of Saigon, South Viet Nam, held defendant’s policy of Marine Insurance providing, not only standard marine transit coverage, but also land coverage including fire loss of insured’s property while in plaintiff’s warehouses or processing plants.

At about 1:30 A.M. on May 26, 1967, the insurance being then in full force and effect, a large stock of box material stored directly…