MARWELL CONST., INC. v. UNDERWRITERS AT LLOYD'S, LONDON

Nos. 999, 998.

465 P.2d 298 (1970)

MARWELL CONSTRUCTION, INC., Foster & Saunders, Inc., and General Accident Fire & Life Assurance Corporation, Ltd., Appellants, v. UNDERWRITERS AT LLOYD'S, LONDON, General Insurance Company of America, Al Renk d/b/a Al Renk & Sons Trucking, and Lyman Woods, Appellees. GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA, Appellant, v. GENERAL ACCIDENT FIRE & LIFE ASSURANCE CORPORATION, Ltd., Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

February 20, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Delaney, Jr., of Delaney, Wiles, Moore & Hayes, Anchorage, for Marwell Construction, Inc., and others.

Robert C. Erwin, of Hughes, Thorsness, Lowe, Gantz & Clark, and Arthur D. Talbot, Anchorage, for General Insurance Company of America and Underwriters at Lloyd's, London.

Before DIMOND, RABINOWITZ and CONNOR, JJ., and LEWIS, Superior Court Judge.


OPINION

CONNOR, Justice.

This case is nearly as old as the judicial system of the State of Alaska. It presents for decision as many arcana of insurance law as counsel have been able to elaborate and preserve for appeal in nearly ten years of litigation. Before we enter this legal phantasmagoria, reminiscent at times of Charles Dickens' Bleak House, we must attempt to set forth a skeleton outline of the factual setting from which emerges a semantic...

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