Douville v. Sun Mutual Insurance

Merrick, O. J.

This suit is upon a policy of marine insurance. As we shall decide this case upon a single point, we do not deem it important to recapitulate all the facts, nor to notice the other questions presented by counsel in the elaborate briefs and arguments presented in this case. We shall assume that the plaintiff had an insurable interest in the goods lost; that the suit was brought by proper parties, ancf that the preliminary proof was made.

The original policy which was, delivered on the fourteenth day of December, 1850, and was on goods and merchandize to be laden on board-vessels,…