Klein v. Globe & Rutgers Fire Ins. Co.

This is an appeal from a decree of the District Court, entered in a suit in admiralty on a marine insurance policy. The steamboat Tornado was to take a voyage from Paducah, Ky., to Tampico, Mexico, and was insured by the respondent for the voyage, the amount of the policy being $85,000. The policy provided that the Tornado should bo towed or go under her own steam to New Orleans, and from there she was to be taken on deck of a seagoing barge to Tampico. She was towed to New Orleans. The policy was then twice modified by riders, which provided that the vessel should be towed on her own bottom…