AMERICAN EAGLE FIRE INS. CO. v. EAGLE STAR INS. CO.

No. 13573.

216 F.2d 176 (1954)

AMERICAN EAGLE FIRE INS. CO. et al. v. EAGLE STAR INS. CO., Limited.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

As Amended October 21, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bert W. Levit, Long & Levit, San Francisco, Cal., for appellants.

Joseph J. Geary, Edward D. Ransom, Lillick, Geary, Olson, Adams & Charles, San Francisco, Cal., for appellee.

Before DENMAN, Chief Judge, and POPE and LEMMON, Circuit Judges.


DENMAN, Chief Judge.

The appellants, hereafter the reinsurers, appeal from a judgment holding them liable to Eagle Star Insurance Co., hereafter the insurer, for the latter's expenditures (a) in attempting to salvage two cargoes of lumber on two barges towed by a tug, wrecked on the Columbia River bar, as subrogee of the lumber owners by the payment to them of its insurance against such loss and (b) in prosecuting unsuccessfully...

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