Court Opinion

ID: 9448014
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 23:20:15.861437+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:31:15.424359
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On Petition for Rehearing
PER CURIAM.
The insurer now contends that since we held the insurance policies to have been amended by reason of certain correspondence between the Chrysler Company, the insurer, and the insured, we should have credited the insurer with an amount equal to the premiums which would have been assessed had the insurer issued endorsements covering the goods in Haifa. It seeks to excuse its failure to counterclaim for this amount in the district court by maintaining that the theory on which the insured prevailed in the trial court and on appeal — that the correspondence amounted to an amendment of the certificates — was not argued to the district court. Even if this allegation is taken • as true, however, the in*445surer has not explained why it failed to mention this claim in its briefs and argument on appeal. Were the computation of premiums a simple mathematical one, we might not deem the claim to have been waived by the failure to raise the point on appeal. However, the seven endorsements introduced into evidence reveal that the calculation must be based on the length of time for which each shipment was insured at various locations and that the rates vary considerably. We do not, therefore, adopt the insurer’s suggestion that we compute the premiums for the $51,180 award on the basis of the premium charged for the sample endorsement reproduced as footnote 2 of our opinion, and we hold that the failure to raise the point before the district judge and before us amounted to a waiver of the claim for premiums. United States v. Rodiek, 2 Cir., 1941, 120 F.2d 760, affirmed 1942, 315 U.S. 783, 62 S.Ct. 793, 86 L.Ed. 1190; Bassick Mfg. Co. v. Adams Grease Gun Corp., 2 Cir., 1931, 54 F.2d 285; see Independent Wireless Telegraph Co. v. Radio Corp. of America, 1926, 270 U.S. 84, 46 S.Ct. 224, 70 L.Ed. 481.
The insurer also maintains that certificates 82347 and 82158 were “not enumerated in Mango’s letter of March 15,” see p. 443 supra, and that under the test set forth in our opinion they were not, therefore, made the subjects of the promise to amend. Although the precise language that is quoted might support this argument, the context in which the statement appears quite clearly belies any such contention. The two certificates, though not enumerated in the letter sent by Mango to the insurer, were listed in Mango’s telegram to Chrysler. Certificate No. 82158 was expressly included in that list and No. 82347 was referred to by its invoice number, 39789-1. The entire list, with details as to the names of the steamers and amounts of coverage, were supplied in tabular form in Chrysler’s letter of March 26 to the insurer. The insurer’s letter to Mango referred not only to Mango’s letter of March 15 but to “a communication from our assured advising that your cable had been received by them containing the same request.” It was this letter, dated April 1, which expressed the insurer’s intention to amend, and we read this intention as extending to all the policies enumerated in the earlier correspondence from Mango and Chrysler to the insurer.
The other points raised by the petition for rehearing are without merit.
The petition is denied.
Motion by Defendant to Recall Mandate in Order to Correct Same by Eliminating the Provision Awarding Costs to Plaintiff-Cross-Appellant.
PER CURIAM.
Defendant’s appeal claimed plaintiff was awarded $51,180 too much. Plaintiff’s cross-appeal claimed the award was about $42,000 too little. We think it fair that defendant should bear five-ninths and plaintiff four-ninths of the appellate costs. To this extent the motion is granted.