COMMERCIAL STANDARD INS. CO. v. RHODE ISLAND INS. CO.

No. 13353.

193 F.2d 375 (1952)

COMMERCIAL STANDARD INS. CO. v. RHODE ISLAND INS. CO.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 31, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry N. Harris, Raymond E. Buck, Fort Worth, Tex., for appellant.

H. S. Lattimore, Fort Worth, Tex., for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and BORAH and STRUM, Circuit Judges.


STRUM, Circuit Judge.

The purpose of this suit, instituted by appellant against appellee, is to determine which of these companies is liable for an admitted loss sustained when the Morgan Mill Baptist Church, near Stephenville, Texas, was destroyed by fire on the morning of September 6, 1948. It is conceded that one of them is liable, but each insists that the other's policy, and not its own, was in effect when the fire occurred.

The facts are that a local...

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