The Columbia Insurance Company of Alexandria, in Error v. Joseph W. Lawrence, Who Survived Thomas Poindexter
Supreme Court of the United States
IN error to the circuit court of the United States for the District of Columbia, in the county of Alexandria. At January term 1829, a suit between the same parties was before this court, on a writ of error. 2 Peters 25. It was an action instituted by Lawrence, the survivor of Lawrence and Poindexter, on a policy of insurance against fire, to recover from the Columbia Insurance Company of Alexandria, the amount of a loss sustained by them by the destruction of a mill by fire;…
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IN error to the circuit court of the United States for the District of Columbia, in the county of Alexandria. At January term 1829, a suit between the same parties was before this court, on a writ of error. 2 Peters 25. It was an action instituted by Lawrence, the survivor of Lawrence and Poindexter, on a policy of insurance against fire, to recover from the Columbia Insurance Company of Alexandria, the amount of a loss sustained by them by the destruction of a mill by fire; alleged to have been duly insured by the defendants. A ve-vdict and judgment had been rendered in favour of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Story
delivered the opinion .of the Court.
This.is a writ of error to the circuit court of the District of Coiumbia, for the county of Alexandria.
The original action was assumpsit, brought by the defendant in error against the insurance company, upon a policy of insurance, against fire underwritten by the company, on the 9th of April 1823, whereby the company insured for the defendant in error, and his partner, Poindexter (since deceased), 7000 dollars on their stone mill, called the Elba mill, four stories high, situated on an island about a mile from Frederickburg, in Virginia. The declaration…
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