Ludlow v. Bowne & Eddy
New York Supreme Court
THIS was an action on a policy of insurance, on the cargo of the ship Sisters, upon a voyage at and from New-York to Havre de Grace, in France.
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THIS was an action on a policy of insurance, on the cargo of the ship Sisters, upon a voyage at and from New-York to Havre de Grace, in France. At the trial, before his honor, Mr. Justice Livingston, at the New-York circuit, the 26th June, 1803, the subscription to the policy, the interest, loss, and abandonment, were admitted, and a verdict found 7 7 for the plaintiffs, as for a total loss, for the sum of 1153 dollars, subject to the opinion of the court, on the following case : On the 28th June, 1783,,* the defendants underwrote the policy to the plaintiffs, for 300 pounds, at 3 1-2 per…
1Opinion of the Court
Tompkins. J.
Two questions are presented by this case. 1. Whether the property in the goods insured, and shipped under the contract stated, belonged, during the transportation, to the plaintiffs, or to the consignees at St. Vallery ?
2. Whether the contract be valid according to the established principles of the laws of nations ?
The goods in question were purchased by the plaintiffs with their own funds, and upon their own credit, and it is not controverted, but that they vested in the plaintiffs, on the delivery to them by the persons of whom they were purchased. There was no privity between…
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