Shawmut Sugar Refining Co. v. Hampden Mutual Insurance
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Action of contract upon a policy of insurance to “ P. E. Kingman and others of Boston, on their sugars in process of refinery and machinery $1500, sugar in store-house $1000, in wood buildings in Dedham, Mass., payable in case of loss to the Shawmut Sugar Refining Company.” By indorsement, consented to by the defendants, Kingman assigned bis interest in the policy to the plaintiffs.
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Action of contract upon a policy of insurance to “ P. E. Kingman and others of Boston, on their sugars in process of refinery and machinery $1500, sugar in store-house $1000, in wood buildings in Dedham, Mass., payable in case of loss to the Shawmut Sugar Refining Company.” By indorsement, consented to by the defendants, Kingman assigned bis interest in the policy to the plaintiffs. Trial in the superior court of Suffolk at November term 1857, before Huntington, J., when a verdict was taken for the plaintiffs for the amount of the premium only, and they alleged exceptions, upon the grounds…
1Opinion of the CourtMerrick, J.
The policy declared on in this case was issued by the defendants to “ P. E. Kingman and others of Boston,” on their application. After the plaintiffs had introduced upon the trial all their evidence, it was objected that it was insufficient to maintain the action, and a nonsuit was moved for. This was resisted by the plaintiffs, who contended, among other claims preferred by them, that upon the evidence produced and the facts proved by it, the jury could properly find that they were the parties insured, and that “ P. E. Kingman and others,” as used in the policy, was a description of and…
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