Alliance Insurance v. Producers Cotton Oil Co.
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Warren county. Hon. H. C. Mounger, Judge. Suit by the Producers Cotton Oil Company and others against the Alliance Insurance Company of Philadelphia. Prom a judgment for plaintiffs, defendant appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
The steamer Henry Sheldon, of which appellees were the owners, and the value of which was ten thousand five hundred dollars, was insured in several marine insurance companies for sums aggregating seven thousand dollars, one of the policies having been issued by the defendant herein, and was for the sum of one thousand dollars. George W. Neare, Gibbs & Co. were the general agents of all of these companies, and represented them in the matters covered by this litigation. On September 30, 3910, at four o’clock a. m., this steamer, while lying anchored in the canal at Vicksburg, sank in several…
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