PHOENIX INSURANCE COMPANY v. MONON RAILROAD

No. 20396.

438 F.2d 1403 (1971)

PHOENIX INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellee, v. MONON RAILROAD, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

March 11, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. James Dickinson, Stringer, Donnelly, Allen & Sharood, St. Paul, Minn., for appellant.

H. A. Cousineau, Jr., Mordaunt, Walstad, Cousineau & McGuire, Minneapolis, Minn., for appellee.

Before GIBSON and BRIGHT, Circuit Judges, and McMANUS, Chief District Judge.


BRIGHT, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff Phoenix Insurance Company (Phoenix) brought an action against the defendant Monon Railroad (Monon) for the loss of 165 cases of liquor which disappeared from a trailer-load shipment originating with the Calvert Distillers Company in Louisville, Kentucky, and destined for Old Peoria Company, Inc. (Old Peoria) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Plaintiff Phoenix, Old Peoria's insurer, paid for the latter's loss and brought this action as its...

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