M. W. Engleman v. General Accident, Fire & Life Assurance Corporation

250 F.2d 202 M. W. ENGLEMAN, as Assignee for the Benefit of Creditors Generally of Campagnola Food Products, Inc., a Corporation, Appellant, v. GENERAL ACCIDENT, FIRE & LIFE ASSURANCE CORPORATION and Insurance Company of North America, a Corporation, Appellees. No. 15315. United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit. Dec. 9, 1957, As Modified on Denial of Rehearing March 10, 1958. Harry J. Miller, Robert Haves, Beverly Hills, Cal., for appellant. Hindman & Davis, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellee. Before ORR, CHAMBERS and BARNES, Circuit Judges. BARNES, Circuit Judge. 1 This is a diversity case. (28 U.S.C.A. 1332.) It raises the question of how much appellees are obligated to pay because of a loss incurred by appellant as a result of a fire on August 7, 1954, which destroyed certain personal property owned by appellant's assignors. The personal property had been insured on May 10, 1952, in the amount of $11,000 with defendant-appellee General Accident Fire and Life Assurance Corporation, Limited, a corporation, (hereinafter called General) and in the amount of $12,000 with defendant-appellee Insurance Company of North America, a corporation (hereinafter called North…