Brooke v. Louisiana Insurance Co.

This case was before the court, in June term, 1826, and was then argued and adjudged: but a rehearing having been allowed, on the application of the defendants, who are here appellants, we are now obliged to inquire into the correctness of our former judgment.

The suit is brought on a valued policy of insurance, in virtue of which, the plaintiffs claim to recover from the defendants $11,000; being the estimated value of a cargo of mules, insured from St. Yago, in Mexico, to Havana, in Cuba.

The policy is drawn up in the usual form of such instruments, containing a printed memorandum which…