Padelford v. Boardman
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was an action upon a policy of insurance, which came before the Court upon a statement of facts agreed by the parties at October term, 1806. It was submitted to the Court without argument, and, standing continued nisi from this term, the following opinion of the Court, in which the material facts and points of the cause appear, was delivered at Salem in November, by
1Opinion of the CourtSewall, J.
The demand of the plaintiffs is upon a policy of in surance subscribed by the defendant to insure the schooner Alpheus and Nancy, valued at 4000 dollars, for a voyage from Boston to Amsterdam, from thence to the Cape de Verd Islands, and from thence to her port of discharge in the United States.
The policy contains this clause : “ But the assurers are not liable for any partial loss on sugar, flaxseed, bread, tobacco, or rice, under seven per cent.; nor on salt, hemp, flax, grain, fish, fruit, hides, skins, or other goods deemed perishable in their own nature, unless the damage happen by…
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