Records United States District Court, New Orleans, Case No. 3798; Records Department of State, Texas, Book No. 34, p. 261. It is hard to see the justness of the demand of the insurers against Capt. Brown. The policy which they had issued contemplated protecting the cargo from precisely the fate that befell it. The cargo was insured against "men of war, fires, enemies, pirates, rovers, assailing thieves, jettisons, letters of mart, and counter mart, surprisals, takings at sea, arrests, restraints and detainments of all kings, princes, or people of what nation, condition or quality soever, barratry of the master and marines, and all other perils, losses, and misfortunes that should come to the hurt, detriment or damage of the goods."
