Hunt v. Rhodes
Supreme Court of the United States
. THE appellant filed a bill-oil the .Chancery side of the Circuit-Court-of the. United'States, for the district of Rhode Island, setting, forth, .that, in January 1820, Lewis Rousmaniere obtained from him two -loans of money, ambunting, together, to 215Q dollars.; and, at the time the first loan -was made, Rousmaniere offered to give, in addition to his notes,-’a bill of sale, , or mortgage of .his. interest,1' in the -brig ’Nereus,-then at sea,, ás a collatéral- security…
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. THE appellant filed a bill-oil the .Chancery side of the Circuit-Court-of the. United'States, for the district of Rhode Island, setting, forth, .that, in January 1820, Lewis Rousmaniere obtained from him two -loans of money, ambunting, together, to 215Q dollars.; and, at the time the first loan -was made, Rousmaniere offered to give, in addition to his notes,-’a bill of sale, , or mortgage of .his. interest,1' in the -brig ’Nereus,-then at sea,, ás a collatéral- security for . the repayment of thé money. A few' days after the' delivery of - the' first note,- dated' llfh' of January 1820,…
1Opinion of the Court
■Mr. Justice. Washington
delivered the opinion of the Court;-— ■
Thiscase waS before this Court in the year 1823, ahd-is reported in 8 Wheaton, 174, and was then argúed at great length,' by the counsel concerned in it. After full consideration, it. was decided, that the power of attorney, given by Rousmaniere, the intestate^ to the appellant, Hunt, authorizing him to make and execute a bill of sale of three-fourths of the TSTereus and of the Industry, to himself, or to any-other person, and in the event of their being lost, to collect the money which should become due under á policy upon them…
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