Marine Ins. v. McLanahan

McCLINTIC, District Judge.

These were libels filed by the receiver of the West India Sugar Corporation against the four defendant insurance companies (all British companies and domiciled in England) to recover for the total loss of the barge Detroit, insured under four separate policies, all bearing date in the last half of the month of September, 1918, and issued in England. Under the terms of all the policies, the barge was insured “for and during the space of 12 calendar months commencing noon 25th of July, 1918, and ending noon 25th of July, 1919, beginning and ending with New York time.”…