GLENS FALLS INS. CO. v. McCOWN

No. 15114.

228 S.W.2d 949 (1950)

GLENS FALLS INS. CO. v. McCOWN.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Fort Worth.

Rehearing Denied April 21, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Holloway, Crowley & Hudson and Edgar H. Keltner, Jr., all of Fort Worth, for appellant.

Hyder & Honts and Wm. J. Chilcoat, and John B. Honts, all of Fort Worth, for appellee.


McDONALD, Chief Justice.

In May of 1949 there occurred in certain portions of the City of Fort Worth a flood of perhaps unprecedented dimensions. Following extremely heavy rainfall, the water in the Trinity River, which runs through a considerable part of the city, rose until it left the banks of the river and then in several places flowed over the system of levees which paralleled the river, with the result that large areas of the city, both business and residential...

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