Hanover Fire Insurance v. Morse Dry Dock & Repair Co.

These are four actions brought in equity for the rescission of four policies of insurance issued by the four plaintiff insurance companies and covering the legal liability of the defendant Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company as ship repairers. These cases were tried before the late Mr. Justice Phcenix Ingraham, but remained undecided at his death, and were retried before me pursuant to the stipulation upon all the pleadings, the stenographer’s minutes of the trial, the briefs and reply briefs of the respective parties, and upon all the proceedings heretofore had, with the same force and effect…