Underwriters At Lloyd's Of London v. Cordova Airlines, Inc.

283 F.2d 659 UNDERWRITERS AT LLOYD'S OF LONDON, Victoria Insurance Company, Ltd., Orion Insurance Company, Ltd., and Eagle Star Insurance Company, Ltd., Appellants, v. CORDOVA AIRLINES, INC., Appellee. No. 16283. United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit. Oct. 25, 1960. Edgar Paul Boyko, Los Angeles, Cal., Arthur D. Talbot, Anchorage, Alaska, for appellant. Stanley J. McCutcheon, Anchorage, Alaska, for appellee. Before HAMLIN and KOELSCH, Circuit Judges, and BOWEN, District Judge. KOELSCH, Circuit Judge. 1 This is an appeal by the Underwriters at Lloyd's of London and other participating underwriters from a judgment entered upon a jury verdict in favor of Cordova Airlines, Inc., in the latter's suit to recover under an insurance policy for the total loss of an aircraft which crashed near Iliamma Lake, Alaska, on December 18, 1955. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C.A. 1291 and 1294(2). 1 2 At the time of the crash the plane was operating under a ninety-day charter or contract to Morrison-Knudsen Company and then engaged in transporting dynamite to a construction site at 'Big Mountain,' Alaska, where Morrison-Knudsen was a subcontractor for Western Electric Co. in erecting an…