# Petition for Writ of Certiorari — Steamship Mutual Underwriting Ass'n v. Westchester Fire Insurance

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## Record

- **Collection:** Supreme Court brief
- **Document type:** Petition for Writ of Certiorari
- **Published:** January 1, 1974
- **Citation:** 419 U.S. 1070

## Text

OCT 23 197’

| MICHAEL ROOK IF

IN THE

Supreme Court of the United States
OCTOBER TERM, 1974

NO. 74-473

CHARLES W. FROUST
"VERSUS
COATING SPECIALISTS, INC.
STEAMSHIP MUTUAL UNDERWRITING ASSOCIATION LIMITED
VERSUS

WESTCHESTER FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, ET AL

PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO REVIEW THE
DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT

TERRIBERRY, CARROLL, YANCEY & FARRELL
Benjamin W. Yancey

John A. Bolies

2141 International Trade Mart

New Orleans, Louisiana 70130
Attorneys for Petitioner

INDEX

Table of Authorities ----------------
Citations to Opinion Below ----------
Jurisdiction ------------------------
Questions Presented -----------------
Statement of the Case ---------------
Facts Adduced at Trial --------------
Reasons for Granting Writ -----------
Conclusion --------------------------
Proof of Service --------------------
Appendix "A"

Minute Entry of U.S. District

Court for Eastern District of

Louisiana - December 27, 1972 ----
Appendix "B" ------------------------
Appendix "C" ------------------------

Appendix "D" ------------------------

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Aetna Life Insurance Company of
Hartford, Conn. v. Maxwell,
89 F.2d 988 (1973) ---------------- 3,45

American Mutual Liability Insurance

Co. v. Agricola Furniture Co.,

(S.Ct. Ala., 1937) 236 Ala. 535,

183 So. 677 ----------------------- 10

Audubon Coin & Stamp Co. v. Alford
Safe & Lock Co. (La. App.,1969)
230 So.2d 278 --------------------- 14

Beryllium Corporation v. American
Mutual Liability Insurance Company,
223 F. 2d 71 (1955) --------------- 42.9,i1

Buckeye Cotton Oil Company v.
Ragland, (5th Cir., 1926)
ll F.2d 231 ----------------------- pe

Canadian Radium & Uranium Corpora-
tion v. Indemnity Insurance Company,
(S. Ct. ILL., 1952) 411 I1l. 334

104 N.E. 2d 256 ------------------- 12

Export §.S. Corp. v. American Ins.

Co., 106 F.2d 9, aff'd on reh.

108 F.2d 1013, cert.den. 309 U.S.

686, 84 L.ed. 1029, 60 S.Ct. 809 -- 3,16

Gentry v. Swann Chemical Co.,
(S.Ct. Ala., 1937) 234 Ala. 313,
174 So. 530 ----------------------- 10

Globe Indemnity Co. of New York v.
Banner Grain Co., (8th Cir., 1937)
90 F.2d 774 ----------------------- 9

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