Armour & Company v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company

SWYGERT, Chief Judge.

Appellant Armour & Company brought this diversity action in the district court against the appellee, St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company. The action was founded on a contract of insurance which Thomas Thompson, doing business as T & R Trucking Company, had entered into with St. Paul. Armour alleged that T&R owed it $16,154.00 in connection with a shipment of frozen poultry which had disappeared after T&R had taken it pursuant to a shipping contract with Armour, and that the same loss had caused St. Paul to be come liable to T&R under its insurance contract with T&R.…