Brazilian Export & Import Co. v. Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. of San Francisco

This action was brought upon a

policy of marine insurance issued by the defendant to the plaintiff, under which plaintiff seeks to recover for loss to merchandise on land while in the course of transportation from a warehouse in New York city to a vessel in Brooklyn, on which the goods were to be shipped to a port in South America. Sixty-one bales of tissue paper were left on pier No. 5, East river, for the night. It snowed and rained that night, and by reason thereof the paper got wet and damaged.

The policy contains 147 lines of small print. Lines 13,14 and 15, pertinent to this issue, are as…