Higgie v. American Lloyds

Blodgett, D. J.

This is a libel on a contract of insurance made by the respondent with the libelants as owners of the schooner G. G. Cooper, whereby respondent insured the freight list of the schooner for a voyage from Las Palmas, in the Canary islands, to Bio Janeiro, Brazil, in the sum of $1,800; the certificate of insurance bearing date July 8, 1879, and having been issued from the office of the agent of the respondent in the city of Chicago on the application of the owners of the schooner.

Two defenses are urged by the respondent to the claims of the libelants: First, that the vessel whose…