Dunbar Molasses Corp. v. Home Ins.

BYERS, District Judge.

This is an action at law, a jury having been waived, in which the plaintiff seeks to recover for the loss of molasses in bulk, the result of escape of a portion thereof from a broken section of a pipe line leading from the plaintiff’s storage tank to a valve at the dock where a ship lay in which the cargo was laden; the valve was connected with the ship’s hose leading over the ship’s side.

The loss occurred at New Orleans on September 16, 1930.

The insurance contract is an open policy issued March 20, 1930, and consists of a printed form attached to which is a- printed…