Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Co. v. Thames & Mersey Marine Insurance

This is an action of assumpsit on a policy of marine insurance. The case has been once heard in this Court, and is reported in 58 Mich. 132 (24. N. W. Rep. 547).

On the former trial the defendant in the court below based its defense simply upon the ground that no action could he maintained by the plaintiff, because the policy declared that it was issued “on account of the Owen Sound Steam-ship Company,” and the circuit court so ruled, and a judgment was entered in favor of the defendant, which was reversed by this Court, and the case remanded for new trial. In the present trial the plaintiff…