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CONTINENTAL CAS. CO. v. HOWARD

No. 82-3047.

775 F.2d 876 (1985)

CONTINENTAL CASUALTY COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Ervin HOWARD, d/b/a LaFayette Components, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided October 29, 1985.

As Amended November 7, and November 13, 1985.

Rehearing Denied December 3, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William K. Bennett and Robert W. Bennett, Bennett, Boehning, Poynter & Clary, Lafayette, Ind., for defendant-appellant.

Lisa Marco Kouba, Clausen, Miller, Gorman, Caffrey & Witous, P.C., Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before WOOD and COFFEY, Circuit Judges, and PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.

COFFEY, Circuit Judge.

The defendant, Ervin Howard appeals a jury verdict on a counterclaim in his favor in the amount of $9,500 rather than the $379,000 Howard claimed. We affirm.

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This litigation, in federal court under our diversity jurisdiction, arose out of the destruction by fire of the defendant's roof-truss factory in LaFayette, Indiana in January of 1981. After investigating the cause of the fire, the insurer, Continental Casualty Company...

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