FIDELITY-PHENIX FIRE INSURANCE CO. v. FARM AIR SERVICE

No. 16979.

255 F.2d 658 (1958)

FIDELITY-PHENIX FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY et al., Appellants, v. FARM AIR SERVICE, Inc., Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 11, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Quentin Bates, Houston, Tex., Fulbright, Crooker, Freeman, Bates & Jaworski, Houston, Tex., for appellants.

Clyde E. Barnes, Robert E. Barnes, Beaumont, Tex., Barnes & Barnes, Beaumont, Tex., for appellee.

Before RIVES, TUTTLE and CAMERON, Circuit Judges.


CAMERON, Circuit Judge.

We are asked to reverse the judgment of the court below because it admitted oral evidence of negotiations between the parties to two fire insurance contracts covering the contents of an airplane hangar to aid the jury in reaching its verdict on the question whether the parties intended that the policies cover an airplane destroyed by fire. Appellee, Farm Air Service, Inc., sued appellants, Fidelity-Phenix Fire Insurance Company and New York...

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