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- Title: Sanders v. United States
- Author : United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit
- Release Date : January 20, 1956
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 55 KB
Description
The plaintiffs, as owners and occupants of Lots 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 of Block 26 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, brought this action against the defendant insurance companies on nine separate insurance policies to recover damages caused by fire to the building located on the premises. The legal description in the different policies did not refer to all of the lots upon which the building was located, and the insurance companies denied liability for any damage to a portion of the building which was not located on the lots described in the different policies. The plaintiffs sought a reformation of the description in the policies, contending that each policy was intended to cover the entire structure.The Court entered a judgment reforming the policies to include the entire building. The issues as to the value of the building and the damage sustained were submitted to a jury. Judgment was entered against each defendant for its proportionate share of the verdict. The insurance companies contend that reformation was not justified by the law and evidence and that the judgments are excessive. A determination of these issues requires a summary of the evidence.