Firemen's Fund Ins. v. Gulf Transp. Co.

The appellee, Gulf Transportation Company, a corporation, as complainant in the chancery court, seeks in its bill a recovery against the appellant (Firemen’s Fund Insurance Company) of thirty thousand dollars damages for the failure of appellant company to properly repair the barge Bert.

*552The bill alleges that the barge Bert, the property of appellee, was engaged in the oil-carrying business in the Gulf of Mexico; that it was insured in the appellant insurance company in the sum of thirty-five thousand dollars ; that the barge was structurally sound and seaworthy at the time of the issuance of…