Glendale Woolen Co. v. Protection Insurance Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action on a policy of insurance, to recover the sum of 12,500 dollars, insured against loss by fire, on a mill, machinery, stock, &c., owned by the plaintiffs.
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This was an action on a policy of insurance, to recover the sum of 12,500 dollars, insured against loss by fire, on a mill, machinery, stock, &c., owned by the plaintiffs. The cause was tried, on the general issue, with notice of special matter to be given in evidence, at Hartford, January term, 1851. On the trial, the plaintiffs introduced in evidence the policy of insurance on which their action was brought, and proved the execution thereof, by the defendants, and the countersigning thereof, by Plunkett & Hurlburt, their agents. Among the conditions of insurance, annexed to the policy, the…
1Opinion of the CourtEllsworth, J.
We have delayed the decision of this case, that we might more fully reflect upon the important questions presented, and come to a decision that would be satisfactory to ourselves.
We shall not follow the learned counsel, over all the ground taken by them, in the argument; nor comment upon all the law of insurance which they have so earnestly pressed upon our notice, but only such, as we consider applicable and important in arriving at a just decision of the case in hand.
The contract of insurance, as all know, is a contract of indemnity, upon the terms and conditions specified in the policy of…
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- Higginson v. DallMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1816
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