TRAVELERS INS. CO. v. RIGGS

No. 81-1070.

671 F.2d 810 (1982)

TRAVELERS INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellant, v. Harry L. RIGGS, Jr.; Mabel V. Reid, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided February 8, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theresa E. Mulholland, Arlington, Va. (William O. Snead, III, Carr, Jordan, Coyne & Savits, Fairfax, Va., on brief), for appellant.

C. Torrence Armstrong, Fairfax, Va. (Boothe, Prichard & Dudley, Fairfax, Va., Daniel W. Donahue, Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice, Winston-Salem, N.C., on brief), for appellee Riggs.

Russell V. Palmore, Jr., Richmond, Va. (Mays, Valentine, Davenport & Moore, Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellee Reid.

Before WINTER, Chief Judge, and PHILLIPS and CHAPMAN, Circuit Judges.


JAMES DICKSON PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:

After paying a property damage claim arising from an airplane's crash into the home of its insured, Travelers Insurance Company (Travelers) brought this diversity action, as subrogee, against the owner of the plane and the estate of its deceased pilot. A jury found for the defendants, and Travelers appealed, assigning as error the district court's order compelling its substitution for the insured as the named plaintiff; the court...

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