Reed v. Insurance Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Maryland. The circumstances of this case, as gathered from the pleadings and evidence, particularly the agreed statement made by the parties themselves, are substantially as follows: — In November, 1867, the libellant, Samuel Gf.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Maryland. The circumstances of this case, as gathered from the pleadings and evidence, particularly the agreed statement made by the parties themselves, are substantially as follows: — In November, 1867, the libellant, Samuel Gf. Reed, of Boston, was owner of the ship “Minnehaha,’? then lying at Honolulu, in the Sandwich Islánds, and about to sail from that place in ballast via Baker’s Island, with the intention of there taking in a cargo of guano, to a'port of discharge in the United States. Baker’s Island is a small…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bradley
This is a cause of contract, civil and maritime, commenced by a libel in personam by Samuel G. Reed, the appellant, against the Merchants’ Mutual Insurance Company of Baltimore, the appellee, to recover 15,000, the-amount insured by the latter on the ship “ Minnehaha,” belonging to the libellant. The policy was dated the fourteenth day of January, 1868, and insured said ship in the amount named, lost or not lost, at' and from Honolulu, via Baker’s Island, to a port of discharge in the United States not east of- Boston, with liberty to use Hampton Roads orders, “ the risk to be suspended while…
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