Boston Iron & Metal Co. v. Automobile Insurance

Adkins, L,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a suit on a 'policy of marine insurance on' a lighter known and designated as Lighter No. 176, purchased by appellant, plaintiff below, from the United States Navy Department at Charleston, S. C., in September, 1925. By the policy the appellee, defendant below, insured the lighter in the amount of $3,000 against loss from perils of the sea “attaching from October 31, 1925, 8'A. M., Eastern Standard Time * * * at and from Charleston, S. C., in tow of tug ‘J. D. "Wood’ or ‘Peerless’ * * * to Baltimore.” The lighter was lost at sea, whereupon…