Insurance Co. v. Piaggio
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court for the District of Louisiana, in which court Piaggio brought suit against the New Orleans Insurance Company for a total loss, under two policies of insurance: the one for $7000, on the brig Sicilia, and the other :for $5000 on her freight.
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Error to the Circuit Court for the District of Louisiana, in which court Piaggio brought suit against the New Orleans Insurance Company for a total loss, under two policies of insurance: the one for $7000, on the brig Sicilia, and the other :for $5000 on her freight. The petition alleged that the brig, having sailed from New Orleans for Helsingfors, in the Gulf of Finland, July 20th, 1870, was compelled “ by the perils of the seas and unavoidable accidents,” to put,.into Matanzas, Cuba; that the plaintiff,- upon news of the disaster, gave information to the insurers and asked whether'he…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
Due application was made by the plaintiff to the corporation defendants for‘a policy of insurance upon the brig Sicilia, of which he was the owner, and on the 11th of July, 1870, he effected with the defendants such a contract, for the period of one year, lost or not lost, the brig then lying in the port of New Orleans, whereby the defendants insured the vessel against the perils of the-seas and other risks of her intended voyages, as more fully appears in the policy.
It also appears that the plaintiff, five days later, having freighted the brig with cotton for Helsingfors, in the Gulf of…
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