Lunt v. Boston Marine Ins.

Wallace, D. J.

The plaintiffs haying obtained a verdict, the defendant now moves for a new trial, alleging error in the rulings of the court on the trial. The action is on a contract for marine insurance, evidenced by a certificate, whereby the defendant undertook to insure the plaintiffs for $3,000 on a cargo of potatoes on board the schooner Laeon “at and from Yarmouth (Nova Scotia) to New York city.” At the time the insurance was effected the vessel was at Shelburne, to which port she had put in leaking and in distress. A survey was ordered at that port, and the vessel was pronounced…