Bluefields Fruit & S. S. Co. v. Western Assur. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United.States for the Eastern District of Louisiana; Rufus E. Foster, Judge. Libel in personam by the Bluefields Fruit & Steamship Company against the Western Assurance Company of Toronto. Decree for respondent, and libelant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
WALKER, Circuit Judge.
This was a libel in personam, filed by the appellant, Bluefields Fruit & Steamship Company, against the appellee, Western Assurance Company of Toronto, on a policy of marine insurance issued by the latter to the former, a copy of which was made an exhibit to the libel. The claim was for the alleged amount, with interest thereon, of the value of a cargo of bananas, charged to have been seriously damaged, with the result that it became a total loss, in the way disclosed by averments to the following ■effect:
On' May 12, 1917, the bananas were on board craft or boats at…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Mobile Marine Dock & Mutual Insurance v. McMillanSupreme Court of Alabama · 1855
- Smith v. Mobile Navigation & Mutual InsuranceSupreme Court of Alabama · 1857
- H. T. Cottam & Co. v. Mechanics & Traders' InsuranceSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1888
- Monongahela Insurance v. ChesterSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1863
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