White Star S. S. Co. v. North British & Mercantile Ins.

TUTTLE, District Judge..

This is an action on the sue and labor clause of a policy of hull insurance. It has been heard on the pleadings, an agreed statement of facts filed by the parties, the documents to which reference is made in the statement, and the arguments of proctors for the respective parties.

Libelant, White Star Steamship Company, a Michigan corporation, was the owner and libelant, Tashmoo Transit Company, a Michigan corporation, was the charterer, under a season charter, of the steamer Tashmoo, a passenger vessel operated in the excursion business on Detroit River, Lake St. Clair…