An Interesting and Technical Point for Pacific Shipping Prom Our Own Correspondent, Vancouver, June 13.
A case of interes: to all cou uecicu with shipping and marine insurance on the Pacific has reached the British Columbia Court of Appeal, sitting at Victoria. It concerns goods consigned from, Vancouver to Yokohama. the hearing is by way of an appeal from the finding of Mr. Jusiice Gregory in the Supreme Court here where it was held that the Pacific Marine Insurance Company were liable for $17,000 on an insurance policy' held on 318 crates of veneer, part! cargo of the wrecked vessel, Canadian Exporter, which struck the rocks off ihe Oregon coast ard went down a total loss, The Chartered Bank of India is respondent in the case.
Counsel for the appellants claimed that the veneer was consigned from Vancouver to Yokohama and insured the same way, while in point of fact the Canadian Exporter cleared from Vancouver for Portland, Oregon; thus, the appellants hold, going outside of: her insured voyage in: respect to the crates of veneer. The real point of departure, contended Counsel, was Portland, from which the ship would have sailed across the Pacific for Yokohama. Therefore, as the! ship did not sail on the voyage for which a portion of her cargo was insured, the loss of the cargo could not be held to be covered by the insurance. The hearing is proceeding.
SOPHIA WRECK RECALLED, The aftermath of the Exporter wreck brings to mind an echo of the wreck of the C.P.R. str. Princess Sophia, which went! down October 26, 1918, with all aboard, near Juneau, Alaska. A' dog, which swam ashore, was the only survivor of the wreck. Among the drowned passengers were Captain James Alexander ~and his wife, the former being owner of the famous "'Engineer" mine in Alaska, valued at $2,000,- 000. In the absence of eye-witnesses, the court has to decide who died first, Captain Alexander or Mrs. Alexander. If the former did. then Mrs. Alexander would: become heir and next-of-kin and entitled to his estate. The mina is the property in which two brothers of Mrs. Alexander ara each claiming one-third interest. Among the interesting arguments put forward by counsel is that Mrs. Alexander must be presumed to have died first as being of the "weaker" sex. is was countered by the claim that in
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