Williams v. Suffolk Ins. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
Assumpsit on a policy of insurance, dated the 19th of August, 1830, whereby the plaintiff caused to be insured by the defendant, for nine per cent, per annum, premium, warranting twelve per cent, “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, (Connecticut), commencing the risk on the 12th day of August instant, at noon, to the…
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Assumpsit on a policy of insurance, dated the 19th of August, 1830, whereby the plaintiff caused to be insured by the defendant, for nine per cent, per annum, premium, warranting twelve per cent, “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, (Connecticut), commencing the risk on the 12th day of August instant, at noon, to the Southern Hemisphere, with liberty to stop for salt at the Cape de Verd Islands, and to go round Cape Horn, and to touch…
1Opinion of the Court
STORY, Circuit Justice.
I do not think it necessary, in the present cases, to examine many of the points made by the learned counsel on either side; because, in my judgment, the whole controversy turns upon a point, which, if decided in favor of the plaintiff, will render the examination of all others wholly unimportant. The government of Buenos Ayres insists, that the Falkland Islands constitute a part of the dominions within its sovereignty, and, consequently, that it has the sole jurisdiction to regulate and prohibit the seal fishery at those islands, and to punish any violation of its laws…
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