Hart v. British & Foreign Marine Insurance
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of the city and county of San Francisco, and from an order denying a new trial. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Foote, C.
This action was brought to recover ornan insurance policy for a marine loss on a cargo of wheat shipped on a barge called the Grand Island for a voyage from Colusa to San Francisco. The owners of the wheat were Messrs. Hart and Harrington, the plaintiffs here.
Some time about the middle of the night or in the early morning of the tenth day of December, 1878, the barge suddenly sank in the bay of San Francisco, when just below Red Rock, a well-known place in that body of water. Her cargo, consisting of the plaintiffs’ wheat, was a total loss. The night was not very dark, and a light…
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