Glens Falls Insurance Company and the American Insurance Company of Newark, New Jersey v. Cameron Vestal and Mabel A. Vestal
Cases that cite this one
6 later published cases cite this decision. The 5 that cite it most often are listed here.
- Allan C. Miller and Betty G. Miller v. United States (6th Cir. 1978)
- Beattie Bonded Warehouse Co. v. General Accident Fire & Life Assurance Corp. (District Court, D. South Carolina 1970)
- Hardware Dealers Mutual Fire Insurance v. Smart (10th Cir. 1961)
- The Hanover Fire Insurance Company of New York v. Joe C. Ivey and Pat R. Ivey (4th Cir. 1957)
- Firemen's Insurance Company of Newark, New Jersey v. H. G. Senseney (4th Cir. 1957)
This list shows which later cases cite this one. It does not say how they treated it, and no review of that has been done. Not a substitute for Shepard’s or KeyCite — verify before relying.
Opinion
This is an appeal from judgments for plaintiffs on insurance policies issued by defendants and covering a house of plaintiffs which was damaged during the course of hurricane “Hazel” on October 15,1954. The policies covered loss caused by “windstorm” but excluded loss caused by water “whether driven by wind or not”. The question in the case is whether the damage to plaintiffs’ house was caused by wind alone or by tidal waters driven by the wind. The case was heard without a jury by the District Judge, who, after intimating a decision in favor of the plaintiffs, reopened the case on motion of defendants and heard additional testimony but adhered to his original opinion. Vestal v. Glens Falls Insurance Co., 146 F.Supp. 494. No questions of law are presented by the appeal. The *79 only questions in the case are pure questions of fact. The District Judge saw and heard the witnesses, and there is nothing in the record which would justify us in holding that his findings of fact are clearly erroneous.
Affirmed.
Case-law data current through December 31, 2025. Source: CourtListener bulk data.