Cunningham v. Switzerland Marine Ins. Co.

The above libels were filed by cargo-owners to recover the expenses of defending a suit on a bottomry bond, under the “sue and labor” clauses of certain policies of insurance issued by the respondents upon the cargo of the Julia Blake, from Rio to Now York. On the voyage the vessel put into St. Thomas, where extensive necessary repairs were made, in order to procure which a bottomry bond was given to the Bank of St. Thomas upon hor hull and cargo. The vessel with her cargo uninjured, subsequently arrived in New York. The vessel, freight, and cargo were thereupon libeled for the enforcement of…