London Assurance v. Companhia De Moagens Do Barreiro
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT. The Respondents herein duly filed their libel in admiralty against the appellant, the London Assurance, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, in a cause of marine insurance, to recover upon a policy of insurance issued by the company upon some 33,000 (being part of a cargo of about 80,000) bushels of wheat, of which the respondents were the owners, the 33,000 bushels being…
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CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT. The Respondents herein duly filed their libel in admiralty against the appellant, the London Assurance, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, in a cause of marine insurance, to recover upon a policy of insurance issued by the company upon some 33,000 (being part of a cargo of about 80,000) bushels of wheat, of which the respondents were the owners, the 33,000 bushels being valued in the policy at $40,887. The policy was dated December 8, 1890, was issued for $20,000, and covered the wheat when…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Peckham
Two questions arise in this case in regard to the liability of the insurers upon the policy in suit: the one being whether what took place before the vessel left her berth in New York amounted to a collision within the meaning of the policy; the other being whether, in case there. was a collision, the company is liable for a subsequent loss which did not in any way occur by reason or arise out of the collision.
As to the first, we think that the vessel was “ in collision ” within the meaning of the language used in the certificate which represented and took, the place of the policy. It was not…
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