Kermani v. Insurance Co. of North America

Plaintiff sues upon a contract of insurance which, among other things, indemnifies him against perils of the sea. By the pleadings the principal issue here has been confined to an inquiry whether the damage of which plaintiff complains was a risk assumed by defendant as a “ peril of the sea.”

In December, 1929, a shipment of rugs consigned to plaintiff in Albany was loaded on a truck at Sultanabad, Persia, and carried to the seaport, Beyrut, Syria, where in February, 1930, the shipment was loaded on the steamship Byron and arrived in New York late in the same month, and was taken to the Bush…