Legal Opinion

Daranowich v. United States

District Court, S.D. New York

Decided July 1, 1947Published

1Opinion of the Court

BONDY, District Judge.

Libellant as sole beneficiary sues to recover upon a crew life and injury policy issued by the War Shipping Administration upon the life of Vladimir Trushko.

Trushko was a messman aboard the S. S. Africander, a merchant vessel registered under the laws of Panama and operated and controlled by the United States. On September 13, 1942, while she was proceeding in convoy on a voyage from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Murmansk, Russia, she was torpedoed, and sank. Trushko was taken aboard a lifeboat from which he, together with other survivors, was transferred to a mine sweeper,…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Crist v. United States War Shipping AdministrationCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1947
  2. Atlanta & Charlotte Air Line R. Co. v. GreenSupreme Court of the United States · 1929
  3. Prudential Ins. of America v. BacioccoCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1929
  4. Crist v. United States War Shipping AdministrationDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1946
  5. Occidental Life Ins. Co. v. ThomasCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1939

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