Blackshaws (Pty.) Ltd. v. Constantia Insurance Co. Ltd. - Appellate Division 1983 (1) S.A.L.R. 120

Marine insurance - Whether defective packing is “inherent vice”

The appellant was a South African printer and lithographer. In 1979 he purchased a printing machine from Norway and effected a policy of marine insurance with the respondent in Johannesburg to cover the machine for its voyage to South Africa. The policy indemnified the appellant against: