Insurance Co. v. Transportation Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut; the case being thus; The Howard Fire Insurance Company insured the steamer •Norwich, owned by the Norwich and New York Transportation Company, for $5000 against fire.
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Error to the Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut; the case being thus; The Howard Fire Insurance Company insured the steamer •Norwich, owned by the Norwich and New York Transportation Company, for $5000 against fire. The policy covered the steamer, her hull, boilers, machinery, tackle, furniture, apparel, &c., whether stationary or movable', whether the boat should be running or not running, and insured against all such loss or damage, not exceeding the sum insured, as should happen to the property by fire, other than fire happening by means of afiy invasion, insurrection, riot, or…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Strong
Mr. Phillips, in his Treatise on the Law of Insurance, lays down'two rules respecting the concurrence of different causes of loss, which the plaintiffs, in error contend should be applied to this case, and. which, if applied, they insist must lead to a reversal of the judgment in the court below. * The first of these is :
“ In case of the concurrence of two causes of loss, one at the risk of the assured, and the other insured against, or one insured against by A., and the other by B., if the damage by the perils respectively can be discriminated, eac-h party must beat his proportion.”
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