United States Fire Ins. Co. of New York v. St. Louis, B. & M. Ry. Co.

This suit was brought by the St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico Railway Company, hereinafter called the railway company, against the United States Fire Insurance Company of New York, hereinafter called the insurance company, to recover the value of two certain lots of cotton, one of which is described as transit cotton, which was of the value of $29,996.84, and the other described as city cotton, which was of the value of $52,-779.21, both of which were destroyed by fire.

The suit was brought upon a fire insurance policy issued by the insurance company to the railway company, the parts of which…