Peeks v. Merchants' Ins. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
This was a suit by libel [by Willard Peele .and others against the Merchants’ Insurance Company] on the admiralty side of the court, founded on a policy of insurance.
1Opinion of the Court
STORY, Circuit Justice.
This cause has been here heard upon the merits, the respondents having appeared under a protest to the jurisdiction, and meaning to insist upon that objection, if there should be an appeal to the supreme court, they have filed a general denial, putting the material facts in issue, and thus brought the entire law as well as facts before the court for consideration. Upon the subject of jurisdiction I have no more to say, than that I have seen no reason to change the opinion which I expressed several years since, that originally and of right the jurisdiction did belong to…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Coolidge v. Gloucester Marine InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1819
- Wood v. Lincoln & Kennebeck InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1810
- Fontaine v. Phœnix InsuranceNew York Supreme Court · 1814
- Jumel & Desobry v. Marine InsuranceNew York Supreme Court · 1811
- Vandenheuvel v. United InsuranceNew York Supreme Court · 1806
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3Cited by34 opinions
- Columbian Insurance Company v. Ashby and StriblingSupreme Court of the United States · 1830
- Wood v. Lincoln & Kennebeck InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1810
- Royal Exch. Assur. v. Graham & Morton Transp. Co.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1908
- Bosley v. Chesapeake InsuranceCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1831
- Gardiner v. SmithNew York Supreme Court · 1799
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