Sorbe v. Merchant's Insurance
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL FROM THE PARISH COURT OF THE PARISH AND CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS. The plaintiffs aver in their petition, “that on or about the 25th February, 1831, they contracted with the Merchants’ Insurance Company of New-Orleans, for the assurance of merchandise by any good American or French vessels, to be shipped from Havre and any port of France south of it to New-Orleans, during six months from and after the first day of August, 1831, and to be consigned to them, in consideration…
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APPEAL FROM THE PARISH COURT OF THE PARISH AND CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS. The plaintiffs aver in their petition, “that on or about the 25th February, 1831, they contracted with the Merchants’ Insurance Company of New-Orleans, for the assurance of merchandise by any good American or French vessels, to be shipped from Havre and any port of France south of it to New-Orleans, during six months from and after the first day of August, 1831, and to be consigned to them, in consideration whereof, they paid the said company the sum of six hundred dollars, being at and after the rate of one and a half per…
1Opinion of the CourtMathews, J.
This is an action on an open policy of insurance, in which the plaintiffs claim the value of certain goods shipped to them, from Bordeaux in France, to New-Orleans, in pursuance of their contract of assurance, and which goods were lost on the voyage, &c. They obtained judgment in the court below, from which the defendants appealed.
The assurance was effected on goods of a certain description, to the amount of forty thousand dollars, to be shipped from Havre or any port of France, south of it during six months from and after the first day of August, 1832, in any French or American vessel or…
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