Hamdi & Ibrahim Mango Co., Ltd., and Cross-Appellant v. Reliance Insurance Company, and Cross-Appellee

*439LUMBARD, Chief Judge.

This case turns on the construction of several contracts of insurance issued for the benefit of the plaintiff, a Jordanian merchant company (hereinafter Mango), by the predecessor in interest of the defendant, Reliance Insurance Co., a Pennsylvania corporation engaged in the business of marine and war risk insurance.

In 1947 Mango, which had recently become a Chrysler dealer for what was then Transjordan, contracted with the Export Division of the Chrysler Corporation for the purchase of certain cars, trucks and parts. These goods were to he transported from Detroit to New…