Johnson & Higgins v. Harper Transp. Co.
District Court, D. Massachusetts
At Raw. Action by Johnson & Higgins, a corporation, against the Harper Transportation Company. Judgment for plaintiff.
1Opinion of the Court
MORTON, District Judge.
This is an action at law to recover for an alleged breach of contract by the defendant to employ the plaintiff as its insurance broker or representative. A jury was waived and the case was tried before me upon fact and law.
The defendant operated a fleet of steamers and barges employed in coastwise transportation on the Atlantic coast. The plaintiff is a corporation engaged in the business of a broker in marine insurance. It had placed for the defendant during the early or middle part of the *735year 1911 a large amount of insurance on the vessels composing the defendant’s…
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