Natchez Insurance v. Stanton
Mississippi Supreme Court
This cause, for the third time', comes into this court by writ of error to the circuit court of Adams county. The action was in covenant, upon a policy of insurance, made by the plaintiffs in error, who were defendants below, to insure the defendants in error, the plaintiffs below, against loss upon, goods to be shipped to New-Orleans; the terms of the policy were as follows: “Upon all kinds of goods and merchandise, laden or to be laden on board any good steamboats, by…
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This cause, for the third time', comes into this court by writ of error to the circuit court of Adams county. The action was in covenant, upon a policy of insurance, made by the plaintiffs in error, who were defendants below, to insure the defendants in error, the plaintiffs below, against loss upon, goods to be shipped to New-Orleans; the terms of the policy were as follows: “Upon all kinds of goods and merchandise, laden or to be laden on board any good steamboats, by whatsoever name the said vessel or master thereof might be named or called, beginning the adventure upon the said lawful…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clayton
This was an action upon a policy of insurance, instituted to recover damages for a loss sustained on three hundred and forty-one bales of cotton, shipped upon the steamboat Fort Adams. The policy was in the usual form, and extended to all kinds of *373goods and merchandise, laden or to be laden on board any good steamboats, the adventure to begin immediately upon the loading thereof, and to continue until such goods and merchandise shall be safely landed at New Orleans; the insurance to extend from Grand Gulf, in Mississippi, to New Orleans, with privilege to touch at any port or place usual on…
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