Lippincott v. Louisiana Insurance
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP THE PXRST DISTRICT. This action was brought to recover the amount of a policy of insurance upon the schooner Volant, “trading between New Orleans and any port in the West Indies, United States or Gulf of Mexico, except Rio Grande, or Brasos of St. Jago.”
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APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP THE PXRST DISTRICT. This action was brought to recover the amount of a policy of insurance upon the schooner Volant, “trading between New Orleans and any port in the West Indies, United States or Gulf of Mexico, except Rio Grande, or Brasos of St. Jago.” It was admitted that the schooner sailed from New Orleans to Matanzas, where she arrived, and proceeded from thence to Savannah, on which voyage she was lost by one of the perils insured against, and within the period compri-zed in the policy. On the trial the plaintiffs offered in evidence the following written…
1Opinion of the CourtPorter, J.
The plaintiffs insured with the defendants their schooner Volant, for the term of six months, “trading between New Orleans and any port in the West Indies, United States, or Gulf of Mexico, except Rio Grande or Brassos of St. Jago.” The vessel was lost in a voyage between Matanzas, in the island of Cuba, and Savannah.
We are of opinion that by the terms of the policy, the port of New-Orleans is made one of the termini of the voyages insured, and that a voyage between a port in the West Indies and a port in the United States, is not a voyage between New Orleans and any port in the West Indies,…
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