U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 1940

Pruitt v. Caledonian Insurance

Pruitt v. Caledonian Insurance
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · Decided May 29, 1940 · Sibley
112 F.2d 574 (Federal Reporter, Second Series)

Pruitt v. Caledonian Insurance

Opinion of the Court

SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

The fire policy involved in this case covered the same stock of merchandise as that involved in Pruitt v. Hardware Dealers Mutual Fire Ins. Co., 5 Cir., 112 F.2d 140, this day decided. The cases are substantially alike, except that in this case the judge at the conclusion of the evidence directed a verdict for the defendant. For the reasons stated in the opinion in the above cited case the judgment is reversed and the case remanded for further consistent proceedings.

Reversed.

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