FIDELITY AND CASUALTY COMPANY OF NEW YORK v. FRANK

Civ. Nos. 8370, 8361, 8407, 8406, 8365.

214 F.Supp. 803 (1963)

FIDELITY AND CASUALTY COMPANY OF NEW YORK v. Janet W. FRANK. OCCIDENTAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA v. Janet Ellen Wagner FRANK. Janet Ellen Wagner FRANK v. INDEMNITY INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA. Janet Ellen Wagner FRANK v. FEDERAL LIFE AND CASUALTY COMPANY. CONTINENTAL CASUALTY COMPANY v. Janet Ellen Wagner FRANK.

United States District Court D. Connecticut.

February 18, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank E. Callahan, Wiggin & Dana, New Haven, Conn., Thew Wright, New York City for Occidental Life Ins. Co. of Cal.

Walter B. Lockwood, Francis J. McNamara, Jr., Morgan P. Ames, Samuel V. Schoonmaker, III, and George G. Vest of Cummings & Lockwood, Stamford, Conn., for Janet E. W. Frank.

David E. Fitzgerald, Jr., New Haven, Conn., for Fidelity & Casualty Co. of New York.

Ralph C. Dixon, and Palmer S. McGee, Jr., of Day, Berry & Howard, Hartford, Conn., for Continental Cas. Co.

Donald F. Keefe, William R. Murphy, Gumbart, Corbin, Tyler & Cooper, New Haven, Conn., for Indemnity Ins. Co. of North America.

Joseph P. Cooney, Cooney and Scully, Hartford, Conn., for Federal Life & Casualty Co.


ANDERSON, Chief Judge.

The various Insurance Companies, who are parties in these actions, wish to use in evidence the whole or portions of reports made to the Civil Aeronautics Board by its investigative groups or sub-committees arising out of the investigation by the sub-committees of different aspects of the airplane crash in which Frank was killed. Mrs. Frank argues that the final reports of the C.A.B. are basically...

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