Lorent v. South Carolina Insurance

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

R-iohardson, J.

This was an action on a policy of insurance. The great object of the motion in this Court was to try the general question made in the Circuit Court, to wit., whether an embargo laid by the United States is one of the risks insured against, by the words, “ restraints and detainments of all kings, princes, or people, of what nation, condition, or quality, soever.” But another question sprang out of the motion, applicable to the particular case before us, to wit., whether inasmuch as the embargo law was passed on the same day on which the…