Waters v. Merchants' Louisville Insurance

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• attempting to determine the proximate cause of the destruction of a steamboat
• “a well established principle of [the common] law, that in all cases of loss, we are to attribute it to the proximate cause, and not any remote cause
• common law supplies default rule where terms of insurance policy and statutes are silent
• attempt- ing to determine the proximate cause of the destruction of a steamboat

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).