Urquhart v. M'Iver
New York Supreme Court
THIS was an action of assumpsit. Plea, the general issue. A verdict was taken for the plaintiff, at the sittings , . _ . , r . In New-York, subject to the opinion or the court on a case . „ i r n • r L 4 containing the following facts : The plaintiff being owner of a ship called tht Nancy, lying at Wilmington, N. C. taking on board a cargo for Liverpool in Englandwhere the defendants carried on trade, 1 ° on the 17th May, 1803, wrote a letter to the defendants, informing…
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THIS was an action of assumpsit. Plea, the general issue. A verdict was taken for the plaintiff, at the sittings , . _ . , r . In New-York, subject to the opinion or the court on a case . „ i r n • r L 4 containing the following facts : The plaintiff being owner of a ship called tht Nancy, lying at Wilmington, N. C. taking on board a cargo for Liverpool in Englandwhere the defendants carried on trade, 1 ° on the 17th May, 1803, wrote a letter to the defendants, informing them that the ship would be dispatched to Li’oerpool to their address, that he had drawn bills on them for 1,350/.…
1Opinion of the CourtSpencer, J.
The plaintiff in this case claims from the defendants ; 1. The damages, interest and costs on the pro*111test of a bill of exchange for 450/. sterling, drawn by the plaintiff, at Wilmington, in North-Carolina, upon the defendants, residing at Liverpool, in England, and which bill the defendants, by their letter to the plaintiff, had agreed to accept, in consideration of the plaintiff’s having consigned to them a ship and cargo.
2d. The price for which the defendants sold the ship Nancy; and 3d, to be exempted from the premium of insurance made on the ship, goods, and freight from Liverpool to…
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