JACK NEILSON, INC. v. CHICAGO INSURANCE CO.

No. 29129.

450 F.2d 156 (1971)

JACK NEILSON, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CHICAGO INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 25, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William L. Von Hoene, Von Hoene & Becker, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff-appellant.

William A. Porteous, III, Porteous, Toledano, Hainkel & Johnson, New Orleans, La., for Chicago Ins. Co., defendant-appellee.

Before BELL, AINSWORTH and GODBOLD, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

Jack Neilson sued the defendant insurance company to recover on a marine insurance contract affording hull coverage, for damages incurred in the sinking of the tug M/Margaret. At the close of plaintiff's case the trial judge directed a verdict in favor of the insurer, on the basis that plaintiff claimed that the cause of the sinking was a recent grounding of the vessel and that plaintiff had failed to prove that the grounding actually was the cause.

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