AMERICAN NAT. FIRE INS. CO. v. ROSE ACRE FARMS, INC.

No. 96-1105.

107 F.3d 451 (1997)

AMERICAN NATIONAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ROSE ACRE FARMS, INCORPORATED, Cynthia L. Wilson, as personal representative of the Estate of Jeffrey L. Wilson, and Robert Garland, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided February 12, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christine L. Olson, D. Kendall Griffith, argued, Fritz K. Huszagh, Hinshaw & Culbertson, Chicago, IL, Donald D. Levenhagen, Richard R. McDowell, Hill, Fulwider, McDowell, Funk & Matthews, Indianapolis, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Brian K. Burke, argued, John Joseph Tanner, Baker & Daniels, Indianapolis, IN, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before COFFEY, FLAUM, and MANION, Circuit Judges.


MANION, Circuit Judge.

American National Fire Insurance Co. ("ANFIC") sued Rose Acre Farms ("Rose Acre") seeking a declaratory judgment that the umbrella liability insurance policy it had issued excluded coverage for an aircraft owned and operated by Rose Acre. That aircraft had crashed, killing a passenger. The district court below entered summary judgment for Rose Acre. The court found the aircraft exclusion patently ambiguous and thus inoperative, applying Indiana...

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