Vandenheuvel v. United Insurance
New York Supreme Court
This was an action on a policy of insurance, on the freight of the “American ship, called the Astrea, from New York to Corunna.” The cause was tried at the last March circuit, in the city of New York, when a verdict was taken for the plaintiff, for 4365 dollars and 6 cents, subject to the opinion of the court, on the following case, which it was agreed either party might turn into a special verdict.
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This was an action on a policy of insurance, on the freight of the “American ship, called the Astrea, from New York to Corunna.” The cause was tried at the last March circuit, in the city of New York, when a verdict was taken for the plaintiff, for 4365 dollars and 6 cents, subject to the opinion of the court, on the following case, which it was agreed either party might turn into a special verdict. The defendants, for a premium of 15 per cent, on the 9th March, 1798, insured 4000 dollars, valued at that sum on the freight. *The insurance was effected, in consequence of the following written…
1Opinion of the CourtRadcliff, J.
This was an' insurance on the freight of the Astrea, from New York to Corunna, in Spain, The policy was subscribed by the defendants on the 19 th November, 1798, in consequence of a written representation from the plaintiff, stating the ship, freight and cargo to be his property.
The plaintiff was originally a subject of the United Netherlands and continued so until the 3d January, 1793, when he was naturalized as a citizen of the United States. He must of course, have emigrated to America, at least two years antecedent to that period, and before the United Netherlands were involved in the…
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