Heard v. Sturgis
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract for money had and received. The case was sub* mitted to this court upon an agreed statement of facts, in substance as follows. The plaintiffs, citizens of the United States, were engaged between April 13, 1861, and April 9, 1865, as partners/under the firm name of Augustine Heard & Co., in the business of buying and shipping steamers for China, of receiving and selling merchandise from China, and of insuring merchandise and vessels.
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Contract for money had and received. The case was sub* mitted to this court upon an agreed statement of facts, in substance as follows. The plaintiffs, citizens of the United States, were engaged between April 13, 1861, and April 9, 1865, as partners/under the firm name of Augustine Heard & Co., in the business of buying and shipping steamers for China, of receiving and selling merchandise from China, and of insuring merchandise and vessels. During that period the plaintiffs bore true allegiance to the government of the United States, and after the sailing of the first Confederate cruiser…
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, J.
The plaintiffs in this case are parties who paid enhanced premiums for insurance on war risks from 1861 to 1865. The defendants are their assignees in bankruptcy, under an assignment made in 1875. They have received money from *547the United States, according to a decision of the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims under the act of Congress of June 5, 1882, in respect of the war premiums paid by the plaintiffs; and the question is whether they are entitled to hold that money under the assignment, which it will be noticed was made before the act was passed, by force of which the money was…
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