Legal Opinion
Lapene & Ferre v. Sun Mutual Insurance
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided January 15, 1853PublishedCited by 2 opinions
Appeal from the Fifth District Court of New Orleans, Buchanan, J.
1Opinion of the CourtEustis, C. J.
This is an action to recover the sum of $8,000, the amount of merchandize shipped on board the schooner William C. Preston, and insured by the defendants for a voyage from New Orleans to the port of Brazos in the State of Texas. There was judgment for the plaintiffs, and the defendants have appealed.
The vessel in which the merchandize was shipped was of some fifty tons burthen, and lay at the Old Basin. The defence is, that she was not seaworthy, and that she deviated from the proper course of the voyage.
It appeared that the schooner left the Basin on the 2d of August, 1851, and from the…
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