Waters v. Merchants' Louisville Ins.

McLEAN, Circuit Justice.

This action is brought on a policy of insurance underwritten by the Merchants’ Louisville Insurance Company, which insured to the plaintiff, “lost or not lost, in the sum of six thousand dollars, on the steamboat Lioness, engine, tackle and furniture, to navigate the western waters, usually navigated by steamboats, particularly from New Orleans to Natchitoches on Red river, or elsewhere, the Missouri and Upper Mississippi ■excepted, (Captain [William] Waters having the privilege of placing competent masters in command, at any time, six thousand dollars being insured at…