Insurance Co. v. Baring
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court for the District of Louisiana; in which court Baring Brothers & Co. sued the Merchants’ Mutual Insurance Company, of New Orleans, for advances made by them, as the declaration in the case alleged, to the. master and owners of the British bark Fanny, for the purposes of her equipment and to procure a cargo for the vessel, in a voyage from Cadiz, in Spain, to the port of New Orleans.
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Error to the Circuit Court for the District of Louisiana; in which court Baring Brothers & Co. sued the Merchants’ Mutual Insurance Company, of New Orleans, for advances made by them, as the declaration in the case alleged, to the. master and owners of the British bark Fanny, for the purposes of her equipment and to procure a cargo for the vessel, in a voyage from Cadiz, in Spain, to the port of New Orleans. The plaintiffs also alleged that through their agents they had obtained a policy of insurance, dated December 6th, 1867, from defendants. The insurance company above named insuring the…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice CLIFFORD,
having stated the case, delivered-the opinion of the court.
Correct instructions, if applicable to the case, the court, as a general rule, is required to give, unless the same are in substance and effect embodied in those previously given by the. court to the jury; .but the court is never required by law to give an instruction to ^he jury which is not applicable to the. case, even though it be correct as an abstract principle or rule of law; aiid it may be added that no prayer for instruction, whether presented by the plaintiff’ or the defendant, can be regarded as…
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