Miller v. Hartford Live Stock Ins. Co.

The plaintiff, F. T.' Miller, was the owner in 1923 of three race horses named Yittamin, Ootrompa, and Stanley. On November 26th of that year he shipped the animals from Bowie, Md., to New Orleans, La., over the Pennsylvania and Southern Railroads. At the time, he was carrying separate policies of insurance in the Hartford Live Stock Insurance Company, the defendant, insuring him against loss from death of the horses caused by disease, accidental injury, fire, lightning, or any other hazard of transportation, within the limits of the United States and Canada. Two of the animals— Cotrompa and…