Ricards, Leftwich & Co. v. Royal Insurance

STOCKBRIDGE, J.—

The prayers offered in this case present a numhe^ of interesting questions in the law of insurance, some of which are not entirely free from difficulty.

The plaintiffs were the owners of thirty-six hogsheads of tobacco, which had been purchased by them at points in North Carolina, and was in transit for Kobe, Japan, and while in the course of such transit the goods were destroyed by fire upon the dock of the Baltimore Steam Packet Company, on the 17th of May, 1898. At the time of the loss the plaintiffs had a policy in the Royal Insurance Company of Liverpool upon tobacco which…