Mutual Safety Insurance v. Cohen
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Baltimore comity court. This was an action of assumpsit, brought against the appellants, a foreign corporation, incorporated by the State of New York, on 31st December 1842. The company appeared, and pleaded non assumpsit. At the trial of this cause, the plaintiff, to prove the issue on his part, offered in evidence the policy of insurance, executed by the defendant, for “E. P. Cohen, on account of whom it may concern.
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Appeal from Baltimore comity court. This was an action of assumpsit, brought against the appellants, a foreign corporation, incorporated by the State of New York, on 31st December 1842. The company appeared, and pleaded non assumpsit. At the trial of this cause, the plaintiff, to prove the issue on his part, offered in evidence the policy of insurance, executed by the defendant, for “E. P. Cohen, on account of whom it may concern. Loss payable to him, by which they caused to be insured, at and from the 13th August 1842, at noon, until the 13th August 1843, at noon; if then absent, liberty to…
1Opinion of the Court
Magruder, J.,
delivered the opinion of this court.'
This suit was brought in Baltimore county court, by the defendant in this court, on a policy of insurance; the vessel insured being, by some of the disasters insured against, much damaged.
The policy on which the suit was instituted, bears date 13th August 1842, and was effected on the brig, T. Street, valued in the policy at $10,000. On her voyage, she encountered a gale, which did her very much damage. While making her way to a port of safety, she was grounded on a reef about twenty miles from Key West, at which place she arrived, 14th August…
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