Williams v. Suffolk Insurance
Supreme Court of the United States
ON a certificate of division from the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Massachusetts. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a citizen of the-state: of Connecticut, against the ' Suffolk Insurance Company of Boston, Massachusetts, to recover a loss, on part of the schooner, Harriet,- and part of her cargo, they having been insured by the defendants.
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ON a certificate of division from the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Massachusetts. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a citizen of the-state: of Connecticut, against the ' Suffolk Insurance Company of Boston, Massachusetts, to recover a loss, on part of the schooner, Harriet,- and part of her cargo, they having been insured by the defendants. There was a similar action against the defendants to recover losses sustained on the'schooner Breakwater and her cargo. Both the cases were brought from the Circuit Court of Massachusetts, on certificates pf division of…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justicé M‘Lean
delivered the opinion of the Court:—
Two -actions were commenced by the plaintiffs against the defendant, in the Circuit Court of the United States for’ the state-of Massachusetts,.on policies of insurance dated.19th August, 1830; whereby the plaintiffs caused to be insured by the defendants, for nine per centum per annum premium, -warranting twelve per centum lost or. not lost, forty-nine, hundred and nineteen dollars on fifteen-sixteenths of schooner Harriet; and eighteen hundred and seventy- • five dollars on board, said vessel, at and from Stonington,…
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