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COASTAL PLAINS FEEDERS, INC. v. HARTFORD FIRE INS.

No. 75-3482.

545 F.2d 448 (1977)

COASTAL PLAINS FEEDERS, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee Cross Appellant, v. HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE CO. et al., Defendants-Appellants Cross Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 13, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John E. Lunsford, Lawrence B. Clark, Birmingham, Ala., for defendants-appellants cross appellees.

Duke, Booth, Kaufman & Rothfeder, Albert W. Copeland, Richard H. Gill, Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiff-appellee cross appellees.

Before RIVES, GEWIN and MORGAN, Circuit Judges.

LEWIS R. MORGAN, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff-appellee Coastal Plains Feeders, Inc.1 operates a commercial feed lot near Samson, Alabama where it holds cattle for their owners and fattens them for market. Defendant-appellant insurance companies2 issued "floater" policies to Coastal Plains insuring the cattle it held against loss by "theft, but excluding escape or mysterious disappearance." In this diversity action...

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