Merchants' Insurance v. Allen
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeals eeom the circuit court of the united states for the EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA. These were appeals from decrees in admiralty. The case is stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Chief Justice . Waite
delivered the opinion of the Court'.
These appeals present the same questions,,and may be considered together. The suits were brought on two policies of insurance, one insuring the interest of George D. Allen and the other that of Silas Weeks, in the ship Orient, from April 15, 1882, to April 15,- 1883, “ to navigate the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and America, and to be covered in port and at sea.” At the time the policy was issued the ship ivas on the Atlantic Ocean, bound on a voyagé from Liverpool, England, to New Orleans, Louisiana, laden with a general cargo.…
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