Waters v. Merchants' Louisville Insurance
Supreme Court of the United States
ON a certificate of division from 'the circuit court of the United States for the district of Kentucky. The plaintiff, a citizen of the state of Louisiana, on the 12th day of September, 1832, caused insurance to be made by the Merchants’ Louisville Insurance Company, at the city of Louisville,, in the state of Kentucky, in the sum of six thousand dollars, on the steamboat Lioness, her engine, &c., to navigate the western waters usually navigated by steamboats, &e.; the…
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ON a certificate of division from 'the circuit court of the United States for the district of Kentucky. The plaintiff, a citizen of the state of Louisiana, on the 12th day of September, 1832, caused insurance to be made by the Merchants’ Louisville Insurance Company, at the city of Louisville,, in the state of Kentucky, in the sum of six thousand dollars, on the steamboat Lioness, her engine, &c., to navigate the western waters usually navigated by steamboats, &e.; the assured having the privilege of placing competent masters in command at any time; the insurance to continue for twelve…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justic Story
delivered the opinion of the Court.
This is a case certified to us from the circuit court for the district of Kcntücky upon certain questions upon which .the judges of that court were opposed in opinion.
The action was brought by Waters, the plaintiff, on a policy of insurance underwritten by the Merchants’ Louisville Insurance Company, whereby they insured and cafised to be insured, the plaintiff “lost or not lost, in the sum of 6000 dollars, on the steamboat Lioness, engine, tackle, and furniture, to navigate the western W'aters usually navigated by steamboats, particularly…
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