NATIONAL FIRE INS. CO. v. BOARD OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION

No. 16048.

239 F.2d 370 (1956)

NATIONAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF HARTFORD, Appellant, v. The BOARD OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION OF MADISON COUNTY, FLORIDA, and J. C. Thomas, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 8, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Henson Markham, Osborne, Copp & Markham, Jacksonville, Fla., of counsel, for appellant.

Wm. McChesney, R. C. Horne, Chas. E. Davis, Davis, Davis & McClure, Madison, Fla., of counsel, for appellees.

Before RIVES, TUTTLE and JONES, Circuit Judges.


RIVES, Circuit Judge.

The principal question is the amount recoverable under a fire insurance policy. November 1, 1951, National Fire Insurance Company insured for a term of five years the Board of Public Instruction of Madison County, Florida, against loss by fire of twenty-eight school buildings, each separately valued, and of the contents of some of the buildings, the values totaling $571,500. One of the buildings was the school at Enterprise, four miles south...

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