Providence & Stonington Steamship Co. v. Phoenix Insurance
New York Court of Appeals
These are cross appeals from a judgment, in favor of plaintiff, of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the first judicial department, entered January 21,1881, upon a case submitted under section 1279 of the Code of Civil Procedure. (Reported below, 22 Hun, 517.) The material facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtDaneorth, J.
The several defendants insured the steamer Massachusetts “ against all perils of the sea and navigation usually taken by marine underwriters (loss by fire excepted), in favor of the plaintiff in various sums, amounting to $75,000, and this, for the purposes of the insurance, was declared to be the value of the vessel. During the life of the policies she ■went ashore in a violent storm, and the efforts of the officers and crew to get her off being unsuccessful, the vessel was in danger of becoming a total wreck. By the aid of a “ wrecking company ” she was set afloat and reached blew York,…
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