Brum v. Merchants' Mutual Ins.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Louisiana
(Ten cases united in one transcript of appeal, by consent, and argued and decided as one case.) The only contest in this case is between libelants and the Home Insurance Company; all the other defendants having settled.
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(Ten cases united in one transcript of appeal, by consent, and argued and decided as one case.) The only contest in this case is between libelants and the Home Insurance Company; all the other defendants having settled. The libel in each case alleges that libelants were respectively employed on board of the steam-tug Tyler, in the capacities stated; and at the dates stated there were salvage services rendered by said Tyler and her crew to various vessels in distress, as follows; October 25,1872, to bark Brookwan. March 30, 1872, to steam-ship City of Galveston. April 16,1872, to bark Moneta.…
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
If it (the Home Insurance Company) is bound for the liabilities of the old Home Mutual Insurance Company, then it owes this debt to the libelants, for there is no doubt the partnership styled “The Harbor Protection Company” collected the salvage money, *143which, under former decisions of this court, belonged to the libelants, and that the Home Mutual Insurance Company was a partner in the Harbor Protection Company, and as such partner was liable for its virile share of the debts of said company.
The evidence with regard to the liquidation of the Home Mutual and the organization of the Home shows…
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