Thurston v. Koch
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Pennsylvania
At law. This cause came before the court on the following- case, stated by the counsel, Mr. Condy, for the plaintiff, and Mr. Ingersoll, for the defendant.
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At law. This cause came before the court on the following- case, stated by the counsel, Mr. Condy, for the plaintiff, and Mr. Ingersoll, for the defendant. “On the 13th of October, 1796, William I. Vredenburgh,-of the city of New York, merchant,' caused himself to be insured, at the city of New York, in a certain policy of insurance, which was subscribed by the plaintiff in the sum of 814,500, upon any kind of goods and- merchandize, laden or to be laden, on board the brigantine Nancy, Captain King master, lost or not lost, at and from any port or ports in the West Indies, and at and from…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion of the district judge was delivered at large, and a copy was furnished for publication by Mr. Gondy:
PETERS, District Judge.
Tlie point in this cause is, whether in a ease of double insurance, the policies are to be taken according to priority; that is, whether the second is answerable before the first is exhausted, if the loss is greater than the sum covered by the first? And if the loss is fully covered by the first, whether, if it be paid by- the insurers on the first, they can oblige those on the second to contribute, pro rata? To be respectable abroad, and to…
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