AMERICAN MFRS. MUT. INS. CO. v. WILSON-KEITH & CO.

Nos. 15648, 15649.

247 F.2d 249 (1957)

AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, a Corporation, and Central Mutual Insurance Company, a Corporation, Appellants, v. WILSON-KEITH & COMPANY, a Corporation, and Dumas-Wilson & Company, a Corporation, Appellees. WILSON-KEITH & COMPANY, a Corporation, and Dumas-Wilson & Company, a Corporation, Appellants. v. AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, a Corporation, and Central Mutual Insurance Company, a Corporation, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

August 14, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald N. Clausen, Chicago, Ill. (Clausen, Hirsh & Miller, Chicago, Ill., Karl P. Spencer and Spencer & Duncan, St. Louis, Mo., were on the brief), for American Manufacturers Mut. Ins. Co. and Central Mut. Ins. Co.

Adolph K. Schwartz, St. Louis, Mo. (Flynn & Parker, St. Louis, Mo., on the brief), for Wilson-Keith & Company and Dumas-Wilson & Company.

Before SANBORN, WOODROUGH and JOHNSEN, Circuit Judges.


WOODROUGH, Circuit Judge.

Federal jurisdiction existed in this case by reason of diversity of citizenship. It was commenced as an action for declaratory judgment to obtain adjudication that the two insurance companies, plaintiffs, were not liable under certain policies of fire and explosion insurance issued respectively by each of them to Wilson-Keith and Company (covering also the interest of its mortgagee, Dumas-Wilson and Company) and insuring the contents of its...

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