Phœnix Insurance v. Pratt
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
IN ERROR. * | UI IS was an action of covenant, brought by the defendauts *n error ™ the Common Pleas of Philadelphia county-, upon a valued policy of insurance dated the 25th of 1805, upon goods on board the ship Charles, Richard Stites, master, at and from Ilavanna to the island of St. Thomas; 7000 dollars at seven and a half per cent.
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IN ERROR. * | UI IS was an action of covenant, brought by the defendauts *n error ™ the Common Pleas of Philadelphia county-, upon a valued policy of insurance dated the 25th of 1805, upon goods on board the ship Charles, Richard Stites, master, at and from Ilavanna to the island of St. Thomas; 7000 dollars at seven and a half per cent. The policy contained a warranty that the vessel and goods were American property, to be so proved in Philadelphia only; and the declaration averred the loss to be by capture by theBritish brigantine of war 1?Epervier, by whom the Charles was carried into…
1Opinion of the Court
Tilghman C. J.
delivered the court’s opinion.
This cause was brought before us, by a writ of error to the Court of Common Pleas, founded on a bill of exceptions which states all the evidence, and contains the charge of the court at large. It was an action on a policy of insurance on goods shipped by Pratt and Clarkson on board the ship Charles, on a voyage from the Savanna to the Danish island -of St. Thomas in the year 1805, when Denmark was a neutral power. The ship was owned by Pratt and Clarkson; and the captain and Isaac Thomas were joint agents of the plaintiffs, and supercargoes. The…
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