Svea Ins. v. Vicksburg, S. & P. Ry. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Louisiana
At Law. On motion for new trial. The following is the charge to the jury; The plaintiff, a Are insurance company, having paid $4,375, the sum for which it insured the compress building, and having paid $55,506.92, its loss on 1.150 bales of cotton which were destroyed by Are while in possession of and on the plaiform of the compress company, is now entitled, as the subrogee of the several persons to whom tlie losses were paid, to sue defendant company for damages oil the…
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At Law. On motion for new trial. The following is the charge to the jury; The plaintiff, a Are insurance company, having paid $4,375, the sum for which it insured the compress building, and having paid $55,506.92, its loss on 1.150 bales of cotton which were destroyed by Are while in possession of and on the plaiform of the compress company, is now entitled, as the subrogee of the several persons to whom tlie losses were paid, to sue defendant company for damages oil the cause of action declared on in ihe petition. The plaintiff company is seeking to recover as damages against defendant…
1Opinion of the Court
BOARMAN, District Judge.
The plaintiff, a fire insurance company, having paid fire losses to the several owners of 1,150 bales of cotton amounting to $55,506.92, which was stored and destroyed in a compress building, now, as subrogee of the several owners of the cotton, sues the defendant railway company in action or tort for damages.' The plaintiff company, also, in this action, sues to recover $4,-375 paid by it on a fire loss to the owners of the compress building.
Under the view of the court, the plaintiff company, as subrogee, is entitled in this cause of action, to sue the defendant…
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