Legal Opinion

Ætna Life Ins. v. Portland Gas & Coke Co.

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Decided February 7, 1916No. 2646PublishedCited by 38 opinions

In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Oregon; Robert S. Bean, Judge. Action by the Portland Gas & Coke Company against the Uttna Life Insurance Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.

1Opinion of the Court

ROSS, Circuit Judge.

The defendant in error Gas & Coke Company, being engaged in the construction of a gas plant on its property adjoining the government moorings in Multnomah county, Or., and having employed in the work a large number of men, secured from the plaintiff in error Insurance Company a policy entitled by the latter “Contractor’s Employers’ Liability Policy,” by which, in consideration of certain premiums which the case shows the defendant in error paid, it agreed to indemnify the assured (within certain amounts within which the present case falls) against loss arid expense arising…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. H. P. Hood & Sons v. Maryland Casualty Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1910

3Cited by38 opinions

  1. Landress v. Phoenix Mutual Life InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1934
  2. Senkier v. Hartford Life & Accident Insurance CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1991
  3. Christ v. Pacific Mutual Life InsuranceIllinois Supreme Court · 1924
  4. Burns v. Employers' Liability Assurance Corp.Ohio Supreme Court · 1938
  5. State Ex Rel. Prudential Insurance Co. of America v. ShainSupreme Court of Missouri · 1939

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