Reliance Marine Ins. v. New York & C. Mail Steamship Co.
District Court, S.D. New York
This was a libel by the Reliance Marine Insurance Company against the Yew York & Cuba Mail Steamship Company and James E. Ward & Co., trustees, to recover compensation in general average.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, District Judge.
The libelant having, as insurer, settled a loss on 221 hales of tobacco, arising from fire discovered on the steamship Seneca, when one day out upon a voyage from Havana, claims to recover compensation in general average, through subrogation to the rights of J.,W. Fortier, the owner, on the ground that the damage to the tobacco was caused by the voluntary acts of the master in the effort to extinguish the fire. Upon a general average adjustment an allowance was made for damage to Mr. Fortier’s consignment by water to the amount of $2,987.55 upon 64 bales; and this is so…
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