Radcliff v. Coster

The Assistant Vice-Chancellor:

The bill in this ■cause is filed to recover the sum of $17,009, awarded by the commissioners under the treaty with France of 1831, to the defendants. They were insurers upon a cargo, -owned by the complainant Roulet, and his deceased partner Mumford. The vessel was captured and carried into Amsterdam.

The case involves important questions, and has received an elaborate and able argument. Any error in my decision must spring from an inability to discern the truth, not from the omission of counsel to display it.

It has been argued upon two grounds: First, as to the…