Indemnity Mut. Marine Assur. Co. v. United Oil Co.

BROWN, District Judge.

The above libel was filed to recover insurance premiums. The debt was admitted and a tender made of the amount due less an offset of $101.98, which the answer alleges to be due to the defendants from the libelant for leakage from barrels of oil on the steamers Scindia and Clive within the terms of the libelant’s policy. There was no distinct proof that the leakage of the oil arose from sea perils, although the natural inference from the proof that the barrels were delivered in New York in apparently good condition, would be that the loss arose from sea perils, no other…