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

Pruitt v. Hardware Mut. Fire Ins. Co. of Minnesota

Pruitt v. Hardware Mut. Fire Ins. Co. of Minnesota
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · Decided May 29, 1940 · Sibley
112 F.2d 574; 1940 U.S. App. LEXIS 4366 (Federal Reporter, Second Series)

Pruitt v. Hardware Mut. Fire Ins. Co. of Minnesota

Opinion of the Court

SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

The fire policies involved in the above stated cases 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. For the reasons stated in the opinion in the cited case the judgment in ’each is reversed and the case remanded with direction to the district court to pass upon the motion for new trial.

Reversed.

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