Phetteplace v. British & Foreign Marine Insurance

The plaintiffs, who are copartners under the firm name of the Phetteplace Olive Oil Importing Company, bring this action to recover for loss by leakage on several cargoes of oil shipped from Marseilles and other Mediterranean ports to them, at Providence, R.I.

I find the facts to be that the plaintiffs obtained insurance from the defendant through the latter's agents in Providence, Starkweather Shepley, by policy dated December 28, 1893, which was in form an ordinary marine policy with some additions written in; that said policy, after giving the name of the defendant company, continued in…