Harkins v. Edwards
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from the Lee District Court. This suit was brought by Harkins, as master of the steamboat Badger State, against the Eranklin Eire Insurance Company, and Edwards & Turner, claiming of them the sum of $195.48, for cause of which claim, the petition alleged as follows: “ That about the 11th of May, 1853, the plaintiff received on board said boat, to carry to various points on thé Des Moines River, from Keokuk, in Iowa, cer- ■ tain goods of different persons, which were…
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Appeal from the Lee District Court. This suit was brought by Harkins, as master of the steamboat Badger State, against the Eranklin Eire Insurance Company, and Edwards & Turner, claiming of them the sum of $195.48, for cause of which claim, the petition alleged as follows: “ That about the 11th of May, 1853, the plaintiff received on board said boat, to carry to various points on thé Des Moines River, from Keokuk, in Iowa, cer- ■ tain goods of different persons, which were insured by said defendants; that on said voyage, said boat was, by accident, sunk in said river, whereby it became tbe…
1Opinion of the CourtWoodward, J.
The sole question is, whether Edwards & Turner are personally liable on this undertaking ? It will be observed, that the first petition recognizes the agency of E. & T.; or, at least, recognizes their claim to be agents of the Franklin Marine and Fire Insurance Co. of New York. The amended petition probably recognizes the same fact; but it alleges that plaintiff refused to take the insurance company for his lien, when Edwards requested him to do so, and deliver up the goods. Whereupon Edwards and Hawley gave him an obligation to pay bis charges on delivering up the goods; and that Edwards…
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