Northwestern Mutual Fire Ass'n v. Pacific Wharf & Storage Co.

This is an appeal from a judgment awarding damages to plaintiff for loss by fire of lumber stored on defendant’s wharf.

The plaintiff, an insurance company, sues on its own and the assigned claims of other insurance companies, arising upon subrogation to the rights of the owners of the lumber, represented by the Union Lumber Company, a corporation, from having paid the losses to the owners upon policies of insurance thereon.

The defendant, the owner of the wharf, and engaged in the wharfage and storage of lumber, disputes this liability for the loss in question on the ground that it was…