Citizens' Insurance v. Marsh
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court of Allegheny county. This was an action of covenant by Capt. Waldo Marsh, for use of James Rees, now also for use of William Barnhill & Co., R. E. Sellers & Co., and W. F. Ewing & Co., against The Citizens’ Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, on policy of insurance dated April 13th 1858, wherein the narr. set forth the policy issued to Capt.
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Error to the District Court of Allegheny county. This was an action of covenant by Capt. Waldo Marsh, for use of James Rees, now also for use of William Barnhill & Co., R. E. Sellers & Co., and W. F. Ewing & Co., against The Citizens’ Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, on policy of insurance dated April 13th 1858, wherein the narr. set forth the policy issued to Capt. W. Marsh on the steamboat Ocean Spray, and a copy of the provisions of said policy: and that on the 22d day of April 1858, in the Mississippi river, between Keokuk, Io-wa, and New Orleans, Louisiana, to wit, about five miles above…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered,
by Lowrie, C. J.
It is for comparatively very few of the acts of our lives that the law prescribes any definite rule. It is satisfied, for most matters, with the general direction to all to do the best they can, in whatever affair they may be engaged, in reasonable accordance with the customs of society in regard to it; and it approves, if the act done cannot be condemned when measured by the standard of ordinary care, diligence, faithfulness, and skill, and allows emulation and good conscience to surpass that standard as far as possible. This is a…
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