Delonguemare v. Tradesmen's Insurance
The Superior Court of New York City
This was an action upon a policy of insurance against fire, for one year, dated the 9th day of January, 1827, and expressed in the following terms: “ The Tradesmen’s Insurance Company in the City of New- “ York, by this policy of insurance, in consideration of thirty- “ three dollars, to them paid, by the insured hereinafter named, “ the receipt whereof ishereby acknowledged, do insure N. M. Delonguemare, of the city of New-York, against loss or damage by fire, to the amount…
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This was an action upon a policy of insurance against fire, for one year, dated the 9th day of January, 1827, and expressed in the following terms: “ The Tradesmen’s Insurance Company in the City of New- “ York, by this policy of insurance, in consideration of thirty- “ three dollars, to them paid, by the insured hereinafter named, “ the receipt whereof ishereby acknowledged, do insure N. M. Delonguemare, of the city of New-York, against loss or damage by fire, to the amount of three thousand dollars, on the “ following buildings, occupied as a china factory, and on ma- “ chinery, tools,…
1Opinion of the CourtJones, C. J.
This was an action of assumpsit on a policy of insurance, against loss or damage by fire, to a china or porcelain manufactory, in Lewis-street, in the city of New-York.
The policy was in the usual form, insuring the plaintiff, for the term of one year, against loss or damage by fire, to the amount of $3000, upon the buildings composing the factory, and on the machinery, tools, horses, and stock, finished and unfinished, contained therein.
*603The destruction and loss of the premises to the plaintiff, by fire, within the year from the date of the policy, was and the defence is, first, that the…
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