Varet v. New-York Insurance
New York Court of Chancery
This was an appeal from a decision of the vice chancellor of the first circuit overruling a demurrer to the complainants’ bill.
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This was an appeal from a decision of the vice chancellor of the first circuit overruling a demurrer to the complainants’ bill. In 1817, Icard, Mumford and Roulet, the last of whom together with the personal representatives of the two first are the complainants in this cause, shipped a cargo of coffee, sugar, and logwood for Marseilles, as joint owners ; upon which cargo the defendants became insurers to the amount of $15,000. The ship and cargo were after-wards seized in the port of Marseilles, under the Berlin and Milan decrees, and finally condemned. After the seizure the assured ofFered…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
The vice chancellor was clearly right in overruling the demurrer in this cause, notwithstanding the objections to the complainants’ right to relief upon the case made by their bill. There is no substantial difference in respect to awards made by the commissioners under the recent French treaty, and similar awards made under the previous treaty with Spain. The decision of this court in Delafield v. Colden, (1 Paige’s Rep. 139,) and a similar decision of the supreme court of the United States, in Comegys v. Vasse, (1 Peters’ Rep. 193,) which, was made about *567the same time, in…
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