Insurance Co. of North America v. Delaware Mut. Ins.

Hammond, District Judge.

On the 17th day of November, 1887, 14,000 bales of cotton were burned while awaiting compression, for convenience of carriage, in the sheds of the Merchants’ Cotton-Press & Storage Company at Memphis. This cotton had been sent there by numerous shippers of it, under the .usages of the business, upon dray tickets and receipts of the compress company, expressing on their face the fact that the cotton, was insured by that company. Upon these tickets and receipts the numerous shippers in small lots had procured from the various carriers and transportation lines doing…