Legal Opinion
Employers Mutual Liability Insurance v. Pacific Inland Navigation Co.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 4, 1966No. 20273PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Per curiam
The insurer appeals from a judgment predicated upon a finding that appellant’s policy covered appellee’s liability to the Port of Pasco, Washington, for fire damage to one of the port’s docks proximately caused by an explosion of appellee’s gasoline barge.
Federal diversity jurisdiction is invoked. The law of Washington governs. [See: Wilburn Boat Co. v. Fireman’s Fund Ins. Co., 348 U.S. 310, 75 S.Ct. 368, 99 L.Ed. 337 (1955); Erie R.R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64, 58 S.Ct. 817, 82 L.Ed. 1188 (1938).]
The Washington Courts follow, as does this Court, the general rule that typewritten…
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