Legal Opinion
Downing v. Travelers Insurance
Idaho Supreme Court
Decided November 7, 1984No. 14645PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAKES, Justice.
Plaintiff has appealed the district court’s grant of summary judgment to the defendant, the Travelers Insurance Company. The issues presented are: (1) whether plaintiff is a third party beneficiary of an insurance policy between plaintiff’s deceased husband’s employer and defendant, and (2) whether the district court had jurisdiction to hear the case as opposed to the exclusive jurisdiction given to the Railway Adjustment Board by the Federal Railway Labor Act.
Plaintiff’s husband, Michael A. Downing, was a train engineer employed by Camas Prairie Railroad, a subsidiary of…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Andrews v. Louisville & Nashville RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Harold R. Magnuson v. Burlington Northern, Inc., D. S. Nelson, J. H. Woolford, and G. J. O'COnnellCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1978
- Pocatello Industrial Park Co. v. Steel West, Inc.Idaho Supreme Court · 1980
- Miller v. Market Men's Mutual InsuranceSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1962
- Manukas v. the American Ins. Co.New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1968
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3Cited by13 opinions
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- Hettwer v. Farmers Ins. Co. of IdahoIdaho Supreme Court · 1990
- Brooksby v. Geico General InsuranceIdaho Supreme Court · 2012
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