Berthoud v. Gordon, Forstall, & Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. The plaintiff residing at Shippingport, in Kentucky, was joint owner with the defandants and one T. *W. Bakewell, of Cincinnati of the Steamboat Hercules.
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APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. The plaintiff residing at Shippingport, in Kentucky, was joint owner with the defandants and one T. *W. Bakewell, of Cincinnati of the Steamboat Hercules. He charges in his petition that said boat was sent to New-Orleans to run in the tow-boat business between that city and the Balize in the month of April 1826, when the defendants were instructed to cover the inerests of the petitioner by insurance, being valued at five thousand dollars, which they were to renew every six months from that date. That in the summer of 1827, said boat…
1Opinion of the CourtMathews, J.
In this case the plaintiff claims remuneration for loss and damage which it is alleged he had suffered by the negligence and misconduct of the defendants, his agents, in not insuring his interest in a certain steamboat called the Hercules, which was employed in towing vessels between New-Orleans and the Balize. He obtained judgment in the court below from which the defendants appealed.
The principal facts of the case are as follows. The boat in question was owned in unequal portions by the defendants, the plaintiff, and one Bakewell. The interest of the plain*583tiff was estimated at five thousand…
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