Held v. Crosthwaite
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Action at law by Gustave Held, trading as Gustave Held & Co. against Burwell M. Crosthwaite, John I(. Crosthwaite, and William H. Brearly, trading under the name of the Crosthwaite & Cannon Company. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
WARD, Circuit Judge.
This is an action to recover damages in the sum of $52,000 against the defendants, alleged to be trading together as copartners under the name of the Crosthwaite & Cannon Company, insurance brokers, for negligence in obtaining for the plaintiff from Morgan, Lyons & Co., insurance brokers of London, agents of underwriters of Lloyds, a marine policy upon 3,000 bags of coffee, of the value of $96,000, New York to Havre, which did not cover, as they had undertaken it should, losses resulting from hostilities and warlike operations. The vessel carrying the shipment of coffee…
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