Parsons v. Massachusetts Fire & Marine Insurance
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Case upon a policy of insurance, which is in the usual form, insuring for the plaintiff “ 5000 dollars, in specie or merchandise out, and merchandise home, on board the brig Success, at and from Boston, to port or ports in the Islands of Sumatra and Java, for the purpose of disposing of the outward, and procuring a return cargo, and at and from thence to her port of discharge in the United States, with liberty to touch at the usual places of refreshment, on the outward and…
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Case upon a policy of insurance, which is in the usual form, insuring for the plaintiff “ 5000 dollars, in specie or merchandise out, and merchandise home, on board the brig Success, at and from Boston, to port or ports in the Islands of Sumatra and Java, for the purpose of disposing of the outward, and procuring a return cargo, and at and from thence to her port of discharge in the United States, with liberty to touch at the usual places of refreshment, on the outward and homeward passages, and to trade thereat.” The cause came before the Court on a case stated, in which the parties agree to…
1Opinion of the CourtSedgwick, J.
(After stating the facts, as agreed by the parties.) The policy of insurance, upon which this action is brought, is in the usual form as to the perils insured against; and the loss ali ged to have happened during the voyage insured, is claimed against the defendants, as having been occasioned by the restraint *166and detention of a prince, called the Dato Bassow of the Island of Sumatra.
It is an insurance of 5000 dollars in specie or merchandise out and merchandise home, on board the brig Success, at and from Boston, to port or ports in the Island of Sumatra, or Java, for the purpose of disposing…
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- Wadsworth v. Pacific InsuranceCourt for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors · 1829
- Cumpston v. FieldNew York Supreme Court · 1829
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- Dennis v. Home Ins.District Court, S.D. New York · 1905