Tayloe v. Merchants' Fire Ins. Co. of Baltimore
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Maryland. A. decree pro forma was entered, under the agreement of the parties, dismissing a bill filed by Tayloe against the insurance company under the following circumstances. The office of the insurance company was at Baltimore, but there was an agent at Fredericksburg, Virginia, who was John Minor. On the 25th of November, 1844, this agent addressed to the company the following letter.
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This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Maryland. A. decree pro forma was entered, under the agreement of the parties, dismissing a bill filed by Tayloe against the insurance company under the following circumstances. The office of the insurance company was at Baltimore, but there was an agent at Fredericksburg, Virginia, who was John Minor. On the 25th of November, 1844, this agent addressed to the company the following letter. “ Fredericksburg, Virginia, November 25, 1844. “ Merchants’ Fire Insurance Co. of Baltimore : — “ The undersigned, William…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Nelson
This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court for the District of Maryland, which was rendered for the defendants.
The case in the court below was this. William H. Tayloe, of Richmond County, Virginia, applied to John Minor, the agent of the defendants, residing at Fredericksburg in that State, for an insurance upon his dwelling-house to the amount of $> 8,000 for one year, and, as he was about leaving home for the State of Alabama, desired the agent to make the application in his behalf.
The application was made accordingly, under the date of 25th November, 1844, and an answer received…
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