Waldsmith v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.

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• interpreting same policy language, loss caused by negligent maintenance of water main off the premises excluded by policy
• “Neither the ultimate cause of the loss (landslide) nor the ... efficient proximate cause (negligent maintenance by the city) was a covered peril [so there is] no coverage under the policy”
• damages caused by city's negligent maintenance of water main adjacent to insured building fall squarely under exclusion of inadequacy in workmanship, materials used in repair, or maintenance of any property of any kind whether on or off the premises

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).