Prince v. Ocean Insurance
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On Exceptions from Nisi Priiis, Howard, J. presiding. Assumpsit, on a policy of insurance on five sixteenths of the bark St. Lawrence, dated Eeb. 7, 1853, for one year. The general issue was pleaded and joined.
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On Exceptions from Nisi Priiis, Howard, J. presiding. Assumpsit, on a policy of insurance on five sixteenths of the bark St. Lawrence, dated Eeb. 7, 1853, for one year. The general issue was pleaded and joined. The execution of the policy and the interest of the assured were not disputed. ■ Evidence was introduced by plaintiff, tending to show, that, on May 19, 1853, between Aspinwall &nd Porto Bello, the bark run on to a coral reef and injured her materially; that in the afternoon of the same, day she arrived at Aspinwall, and constant pumping was required. After she was discharged she did…
1Opinion of the CourtShepley, C. J.
The plaintiff claims to recover for a total loss of five-sixteenth parts of the bark St. Lawrence. That vessel, being on a voyage from Now York to Aspinwall, on May 19, 1853, appears to have struck a coral reef, in Navy Bay, by which a small piece of the rock penetrated in one place entirely through her bottom, and in two other places nearly through. She appears to have proceeded to her port of destination, where her cargo was discharged.
On the thirtieth day of the same month, a survey upon her, called through the agency of the American consul, reported, that her keelson was broken and…
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