Munchow v. Moors

Citations

• 14 Teiss. 417
• 1917 La. App. LEXIS 84

Syllabus

<p>Syllabus.</p> <p>Under a contract between owner and contractor which provides that the contractor “must insure and assume responsibility for your (his) work and material not paid for” and “shall protect his own work from any damages whatever”, and “carry insurance on the property as the same progresses, covering himself against all losses on contract amounts, less payments”, Held, that the contractor must bear the loss resulting from the destruction by storm of his partially completed work, no payments thereon being due or having been made and the owner not being in default with regard to such payments or in any other respect under the contract.</p>