Amazon Ins. Co. v. The Iron Mountain
United States Circuit Court
[In admiralty. Libel by the Amazon Insurance Company against the steamboat Iron Mountain and the barge Ironsides. Heard on exceptions to the libel. Exceptions overruled.] The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
SWING, District Judge.
The libel filed in this case seeks to recover for the value of one hundred and twenty-five barrels of flour alleged to have been lost through the negligence or wrongful act of respondents, as owners of the steamboat Iron Mountain and barge Ironsides No. 3, on which flour libel-lant had insured the owner, to whom it paid the insurance; he having abandoned to it the property upon the happening of the accident entailing the loss. The bill of lading contracted to carry the flour from the port of Mt. Vernon, Ind., at which port it was shipped, to the port of New Orleans, La.,…
2Cited by1 opinion
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