Giddings v. Seevers
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City. This was an action of assumpsit, instituted by consent in the Superior Court of Baltimore City, to determine the respective claims of the appellant and appellees to a sum of money, the proceeds of two policies of insurance, effected on property which was consumed by fire.
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City. This was an action of assumpsit, instituted by consent in the Superior Court of Baltimore City, to determine the respective claims of the appellant and appellees to a sum of money, the proceeds of two policies of insurance, effected on property which was consumed by fire. Exception. — At the trial of the cause, after the facts stated in the opinion of this Court, had been given in evidence to the jury, the plaintiffs offered the three following prayers : Plaintiffs’ 1st Prayer. — If the jury shall find from the evidence that Ira Stanbrough,…
1Opinion of the CourtGoldsborough, J.
The appellant was the owner of certain cotton machinery in the Yalley Factory, at Harper’s Ferry, in Virginia. This machinery he sold to the firm of Stanbrough & Holliday, on a credit, and took their notes for the purchase money, to secure the payment of which they executed a deed of trust on the 31st day of March, 1851, to William T. Daugherty, in which they agreed to insure the said property to the amount of the debts secured by the deed, in some responsible office. All of the debts thus secured were paid except two notes to the appellant, one for $2,000, and the other for $1,124.
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2Cases cited1 opinion
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