Audenreid v. . Mercantile Mutual Ins. Co.

The policy was upon the steamboat Meteor, her tackle, etc., at and from Philadelphia to New York, with liberty to touch and stay at any ports and places, if thereunto obliged by stress of weather or other unavoidable accident. The perils insured against were those of the sea and such as are covered by marine policies, including fires.

The vessel was destroyed by fire, after the commencement of the voyage, and while laying at the wharf at Chester, on the Delaware river, an interjacent port between Philadelphia and New York. The voyage was interrupted for the repair, at the place of the loss, of…