Hartshorne v. . the Union Mutual Ins. Co.
New York Court of Appeals
This was an action to recover $9,200 for the loss of one hundred and eighty-four bales of cotton, burned on the boat Alabama, on the Chattahoochee River, in the State of Alabama, in the month of February, 1854. The action was tried before Chief Justice Bosworth, of the Superior Court of the City of New York, where the Plaintiff recovered judgment for the amount of his claim.
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This was an action to recover $9,200 for the loss of one hundred and eighty-four bales of cotton, burned on the boat Alabama, on the Chattahoochee River, in the State of Alabama, in the month of February, 1854. The action was tried before Chief Justice Bosworth, of the Superior Court of the City of New York, where the Plaintiff recovered judgment for the amount of his claim. The Defendants appealed to the General Term of the Supreme Court in the First District, where the judgment below was affirmed. The Defendants now appeal to-this Court. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the…
1Opinion of the CourtHunt, J.
The Defendants, an insurance company in the city of New York, desired to extend their business to the insurance of cottons shipped upon the Chattahoochee River, from the upper portions of the river to Appalachicola, in the State of Florida. To accomplish this purpose, in the month of October, 1852, they appointed the firm of J. Day & Co. their agents, the said firm then being engaged in the mercantile and insurance business at Appalachicola. The mode of transacting this insurance business at Appalachicola differed from the ordinary mode, for the reason that the arrival of any particular boat…
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