Walker v. Protection Ins.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
These three suits were upon policies of insurance, effected upon the barque Elizabeth. The policies were effected on December 17, 1845, for one year, commencing and ending at 12 o’clock at noon. At the trial, before Shepley, C. J., it was admitted that the plaintiffs were owners of the parts of the vessel on which they had procured insurance ; that the preliminary notices were duly given and that offers of abandonment were made on January 8, 1847, and not accepted.
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These three suits were upon policies of insurance, effected upon the barque Elizabeth. The policies were effected on December 17, 1845, for one year, commencing and ending at 12 o’clock at noon. At the trial, before Shepley, C. J., it was admitted that the plaintiffs were owners of the parts of the vessel on which they had procured insurance ; that the preliminary notices were duly given and that offers of abandonment were made on January 8, 1847, and not accepted. The cases were all by consent put to the jury together. It appeared that the vessel was wrecked on the 17th of December, 1846,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court, (Howard J. concurring only in the result,) was delivered by
Wells, J.
These actions were upon policies of insurance, effected upon the barque Elizabeth, on the seventeenth of December, 1845, for one year, commencing and ending, at twelve of the clock, at noon. The preliminary notices were duly given, and offers of abandonment were made, on the eighth of January, 1847.
1. The opinion of master mariners, relative to the impracticability of saving the vessel, the probable expense of repairs, if she could have been taken to some port in the West Indies, and the course to be…
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