Henning v. United States Insurance
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from, St. Louis Circuit Court. A parol contract of insurance, suck as (we say) was made with defendant in March, 1864, acted upon and carried into effect as it was, is binding and enforceable at law.
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Appeal from, St. Louis Circuit Court. A parol contract of insurance, suck as (we say) was made with defendant in March, 1864, acted upon and carried into effect as it was, is binding and enforceable at law. That such a contract may be made, and that it binds the corporation, though without Avriting, has been repeatedly decided by courts of the highest authority, viz: Kennebec Co. v. Augusta Insurance & Banking Co., 6 Gray, Mass., 204; First Baptist Church v. Brooklyn Fire Ins. Co., 18 Barb. 75; 19 N. Y. 305; Halleck v. Ins. Co., 2 Dutch., N. J., 268-76; Mobile Marine Dock & Mutual Ins. Co. v.…
1Opinion of the CourtWasher, Judge
An exceedingly wide range was taken by the counsel in the argument of this case, but upon an examination of the pleadings as embodied in the record, the decision must be confined within much narrower limits. The amended petition on which the case ryas tried alleges that the plaintiffs were partners, and that on the 25th of March, 1864, they made with defendant a contract and agreement by which the defendant agreed that any shipment of cotton made by Butler & Co., of which firm plaintiffs were members, on any steamboat from any point on the Mississippi river- and its tributaries to any point…
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- Commercial Mutual Marine Insurance v. Union Mutual Insurance Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1857
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- Mobile Marine Dock & Mutual Ins. v. McMillan & SonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1858
- Plahto v. Merchants' & Manufacturers' InsuranceSupreme Court of Missouri · 1866
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