Howell v. Ohio Casualty Ins. Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that where one spouse's arson destroyed the house which both spouses owned as tenants by the entireties, the innocent spouse was entitled to recover under their fire insurance policy for her share of the loss
• finding ambiguity in an insurance policy describing the insured as \husband and/or wife\
• where wife is express beneficiary of fire insurance policy, wife can recover proceeds of insurance policy when husband intentionally burns covered property
• innocent spouse awarded fifty percent of property after arsonist/spouse died in fire

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).