Legal Opinion
General Insurance Company of America, a Corporation, and the London Assurance, a Corporation v. Harold Lapidus and Florence Lapidus, Husband and Wife
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided November 14, 1963No. 17918_1PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHAMBERS, Circuit Judge.
The Lapiduses have a frame stucco' house built about 1954 on a hillside in the Los Angeles area. Due to movement of the soil in the dirt fill on which the house rests, the house is cracking up badly.
The trial court has found the cost of repairing the house to be $30,000.00 and the cost of stabilizing the land under the house to be $10,100.00. Judgment has been entered severally against both General and London for the identical sums of $18,610.00, or a total of $37,220.00. 1
General wrote the first policy in the amount of $45,000 on February 16, 1956, which it cancelled…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Glens Falls Insurance v. Founders' InsuranceCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1962
- Snapp v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.California Court of Appeal · 1962
- Thomas Roberts & Co. v. Calmar SS CorporationDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1945
- The Celina Mutual Casualty Co. v. BaldridgeIndiana Supreme Court · 1937
- Northwestern Mutual Insurance Company, a Corporation v. Milton Michaelson, Yetta Michaelson and Niagara Fire Insurance Company, a CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1963
3Cited by7 opinions
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- Peach State Uniform Service, Inc. v. The American Insurance CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1975
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