BALTIMORE GAS & ELECTRIC CO. v. UNITED STATES F. & G. CO.

No. 7809.

269 F.2d 138 (1959)

BALTIMORE GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY and Bankers Trust Company, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES FIDELITY AND GUARANTY COMPANY, a Maryland Corporation, National Fire Insurance Company of Hartford, a Connecticut Corporation, and Royal Insurance Company, Limited, a body corporate of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and North Ireland, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided July 23, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard F. Ober, Baltimore, Md. (Wilmer H. Driver and William Baxter, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellants.

Charles Markell, Jr., Baltimore, Md. (George M. Radcliffe, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellees.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judge, and HUTCHESON and BOREMAN, District Judges.


HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judge.

We have for decision a question of whether an explosion, within the meaning of certain insurance policies, occurred in a large transformer. In answer to special interrogatories, a jury found an explosion did occur in the selector switch compartment of the transformer, causing damage, but that no such explosion had occurred in the main tank of the transformer. It is agreed that the insurance is collectible if an explosion occurred in either...

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