Legal Opinion
Canada Sugar-Refining Co. v. Insurance Co. of North America
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided June 3, 1897PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, District Judge.
On April 29, 1898, the respondent company insured for the libelant’s benefit:
“$15,000 on profits on cargo sugar; against total loss only; valued at sum insured; shipped on hoard the British ship John B. Sayre at and from Iloilo to Montreal.”
At that time the Sayre was at sea prosecuting the voyage.. The libelant had 2,462 tons of sugars on board of her, amounting in value to $181,000, and had just completed insurance of the sugars to the amount of $166,145 in the.Atlantic Mutual, of which insurance the respondent was informed before its insurance on profits was made. In…
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- Mumford v. HallettNew York Supreme Court · 1806
- Tom v. SmithNew York Supreme Court · 1805
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