United Insurance Co. of New-York v. Robinson
New York Supreme Court
TROVER to recover the value of a quantity of wine and brandy, in which a verdift was taken for the plaintiffs, fubject to the opinion of the court on this cafe.
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TROVER to recover the value of a quantity of wine and brandy, in which a verdift was taken for the plaintiffs, fubject to the opinion of the court on this cafe. The plaintiffs underwrote 10,000 dollars on two policies of infurance, on goods ihipped, by the defendants, to Cadiz, St. Lucar, or Malaga, .configned, conditionally, to the mailer, with directions, in cafe of accident, to inclofe bills of lading to the houfe of O’Connor, in Cadiz, or St. Lucar, and to that of Grevigne, & Co. in Malaga, to be accompanied with in-flxuctions to follow the orders given by the. defendant to their mailer.…
1Opinion of the Court
Per curiam delivered by
Kent C. J.
This is a clear cafe for the plaintiffs. Their claim is founded on found principles, in the law of infurance. The defendants abandon, and the plaintiffs accept and pay. They were then fubftituted for the defendants, and fucceeded to the benefit of the acts of the agent abroad, in relation to the property in queftion. The mailer and merchants at Malaga, adted, nominally, as agents for the defendants, but, in reality, they were agents for the party having the ultimate claim to the property. What they did was, undoubtedly, founded on previous instructions from…
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