Providence Washington Insurance v. The Sidney

The libelants, at Buffalo, insured a cargo'of wheat on board the canal-boat Worden, in tow of the Sidney, consigned to Armour, Plankiuton & Go., of New York. One of tlie steam-flues of the Sidney having burst while she was coming down the Hudson river, she became unmanageable, and, as the answer states, drifted with the tide upon the rocks of Esopus island, whereby the cargo on board the Worden was lost. The cargo was abandoned to the libelants, who thereupon paid the consignees as for a total loss,™-$9,211.75,-—and, claiming to be subrogated to the rights of the consígneos against the…