Smith v. Mobile Navigation & Mutual Insurance
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Mobile. Tried before the Hon. C. W. Rapiep„. This action was brought by the appellants, and was founded on a marine policy of insurance on 300 pieces of bagging, to be shipped from New Orleans to Mobile on board the steamboat Helen; 185 pieces of which, were consumed by fire, while on the wharf at the lake end of the Jefferson and Ponehartrain railroad, about eight miles from the city of New- Orleans.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Mobile. Tried before the Hon. C. W. Rapiep„. This action was brought by the appellants, and was founded on a marine policy of insurance on 300 pieces of bagging, to be shipped from New Orleans to Mobile on board the steamboat Helen; 185 pieces of which, were consumed by fire, while on the wharf at the lake end of the Jefferson and Ponehartrain railroad, about eight miles from the city of New- Orleans. The stipulation in the policy, as to the commencement of the risk, was 'as follows; “Beginning the adventure upon the said goods and merchandizes from and…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
There are two questions which distinguish this case from the Mobile Marine Dock & Mutual Insurance Co. v. McMillan & Son, 27 Ala. 77. First, the policy in that ease insured the goods until they should be safely landed at the port of New Orleans ; while by the policy in this record, the risk commenced immediately following the loading of the goods on board the said vessel or boat at New Orleans. Second, in that case, there was no proof that any insurance company or its officers had construed a policy such as this, as continuing the liability of the insurer after the goods were landed from the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Barlow v. LambertSupreme Court of Alabama · 1856
- Mobile Marine Dock & Mutual Insurance v. McMillanSupreme Court of Alabama · 1855
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