Indianapolis Insurance v. Mason

This was a suit by the company, as assignee of one Temple, upon three promissory notes for about 270 dollars. The complaint is in the usual form.

The defendants answered that the plaintiffs were indebted to them in the sum of 999 dollars, 99 cents, on a policy of insurance issued by said company to the defendants, by which the plaintiffs insured to the defendants the sum of 1,309 dollars, on one hundred and eighty-seven tons of hay, at 14 dollars per ton, on board of a flatboat, from Lawrenceburgh to New Orleans, &c.; and that in pursuing said voyage, by a peril of the river, said boat ran…