Clark v. President of the Manufacturers' Insurance
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up, by writ of error, from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. It was an action upon a policy of insurance against fire. The plaintiffs in error, who were also plaintiffs below, resided at Malone, in the county of Franklin and State of New York, and the insurance company was at Boston, in Massachusetts.
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This case was brought up, by writ of error, from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. It was an action upon a policy of insurance against fire. The plaintiffs in error, who were also plaintiffs below, resided at Malone, in the county of Franklin and State of New York, and the insurance company was at Boston, in Massachusetts. The property insured was a cotton factory in Malone, owned originally by Jonathan Stearns, who applied for insurance on the 28th of April, 1834. There were fifty questions asked by the insurance company, and answered by Steams. The…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woodbury
The original action in this case was assumpsit by the plaintiffs in error on a-policy of insurance, made August 13, 1845.
From the detailed statement of the facts, it will be seen that the loss occurred on the 13th of March, 1846, and was to be paid to the Ogdensbui’g Bank, which held the title to the property insured, but was under a contract in a certain event to convey it to the plaintiffs, they having already paid for it in part.
The original insurance was made in 1834, by Jonathan Steams, who had mortgaged to the bank the factory insured, and who continued most of the time till the loss to…
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