George Bartholomew v. Appalachian Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[A] homeowner could not insure his house against flood damage when the rising waters were already in his front yard.” (citation omitted)
• insured had actual knowledge of probable loss based on its own intentional misuse of a machine that had on prior occasions caused injury
• “The concept of insurance is that the parties, in effect, wager against the occurrence or non-occurrence of a specified event … .”
• when the defect takes place or is discovered

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).