NEW YORK & CUBA MAIL S. S. CO. v. CONTINENTAL INS. CO.


32 F.Supp. 251 (1940)

NEW YORK & CUBA MAIL S. S. CO. v. CONTINENTAL INS. CO. OF CITY OF NEW YORK.

District Court, S. D. New York.

March 12, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Burlingham, Veeder, Clark & Hupper, of New York City (Roscoe H. Hupper, Chauncey I. Clark, Ray Rood Allen, and Eugene Underwood, all of New York City, of counsel), for libelant.

Kirlin, Campbell, Hickox, Keating & McGrann and Tompkins, Boal & Tompkins, all of New York City (Cletus Keating, Arthur M. Boal, and James H. Herbert, all of New York City, of counsel), for respondent.


GODDARD, District Judge.

This is a libel by the New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company, charterer, owner and operator of the Steamship Morro Castle to recover from the Continental Insurance Company of New York, its protection and indemnity underwriter, $1,114,267.12 with interest as reimbursement for the losses and expenses sustained by libelant as the result of a fire on board the Steamship Morro Castle on September 8, 1934. The suit is based on respondent's insurance...

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