Maryland Insurance v. Bathurst
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Cross Appears from Baltimore County Court. These were actions of Covenant instituted by Thompson & Bathurst, against the Insurance Companies, on the 17th March, 1824. Thompson died pending the causes. Issues were joined upon the pleas of non infregit conventionem. The following statement is from the record in the case of the Maryland Insurance Company, from which the other is not supposed in principle to be distinguishable.
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Cross Appears from Baltimore County Court. These were actions of Covenant instituted by Thompson & Bathurst, against the Insurance Companies, on the 17th March, 1824. Thompson died pending the causes. Issues were joined upon the pleas of non infregit conventionem. The following statement is from the record in the case of the Maryland Insurance Company, from which the other is not supposed in principle to be distinguishable. These causes were argued, and decided together in the Court of Appeals. 1. At the trial the plaintiff read in evidence to the jury, the following policy of insurance. “By…
1Opinion of the CourtDoksey, J.
The first exception on the part of the Insurance Company, relative to the insufficiency of the preliminary proof having been abandoned, we are called to the consideration of the question raised on their second bill of exceptions; viz. Is the copy of the record of the prize court of Porto Rico competent evidence, “for the purpose of showing that the original papers, of which copies and translations, purporting to be inserted in said record, were on board the said ship Budget, at the time of her capture, and were acknowledged to have been so on board by the said Meany, the captain of said ship,…
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- Buck & Hedrick v. Chesapeake Ins. Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1828
- Walsh v. BailieNew York Supreme Court · 1813
- Reed v. Pruyn & StaatsNew York Supreme Court · 1811
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- Walker v. SchindelCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1882
- Emory v. Owings ex rel. GreenCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1852
- F. W. Dodge Co. v. H. A. Hughes Co.Court of Appeals of Maryland · 1909
- Kettlewell v. PetersCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1865