Adams v. Pittsburgh Insurance
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 1, of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1880, No. 65. Assumpsit brought by the Pittsburgh Insurance Company against John S. Adams and Adam Jacobs, who survived James Collins, late owners of the steamboat “ Glasgow.” John S. Adams was the only one served.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 1, of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1880, No. 65. Assumpsit brought by the Pittsburgh Insurance Company against John S. Adams and Adam Jacobs, who survived James Collins, late owners of the steamboat “ Glasgow.” John S. Adams was the only one served. The claim of the insurance company was to recover on a promissory note premiums for insurance, which, in 1867, had been taken by said insurance company on the steamboat “ Glasgow,” at request of G. W. Johnston, the captain, who gave a note of the owners for the premiums; The testimony…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Mercur
u Qonsuetudo,” said Sir Edward Coke, “is one of the main triangles of the laws of England; those laws being divided into common law, statute law and particlar customs, for if it be the general- custom of the realm, it is part of the common' law :” Co. Lit. 113-15. “A custom used upon a certain reasonable cause, depriveth the common law:” Littleton, page 112, sect. 169. In Vanhearth v. Turner, Winch. Rep. 24, Chief Justice Hobart said, “ the custom of merchants is part of the common law of this kingdom, of which the judges ought to take notice, and if any doubt arise to them about the custom…
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