The Arctic Fire Ins. Co. v. . Austin
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff, entered upon a verdict.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff, entered upon a verdict. (Reported below, 3 Hun, 195.) This action was brought against defendant as president of the Albany and Canal line of tow-boats, a joint stock association engaged in towing canal boats between Albany and New York, to recover damages for the loss of a cargo of corn, upon which plaintiff had an insurance, which loss was alleged to have been occasioned by the negligence of defendant’s employees. The cargo was on board the canal boat,…
1Opinion of the CourtAllen, J.
The canal boat J. L. Parsons, laden with corn owned and shipped by White’s Bank of Buffalo, while in tow of the steam tug McDonald, owned and used in the towing of boats and barges by a joint stock company, of which the defendant was president, on her passage down the Hudson river, was sunk by a collision with a barge in tow of the steam tug Austin, owned by and in the service of the same company, bound up the river, nearly opposite West Point, and between that point and Magazine Point, a few rods above, and the boat and cargo were wholly lost. The plaintiff had insured the cargo of com, and…
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