Murray v. Hatch
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was an action on a policy of insurance, effected in the office of Abraham Touro, dated May 19th, 1801, on one half the schooner Betsey, her cargo and freight, from Grenada to Wiscasset, one thousand dollars on the vessel, five hundred dollars on the cargo, and five hundred dollars on the freight; — the vessel valued at four thousand dollars.
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This was an action on a policy of insurance, effected in the office of Abraham Touro, dated May 19th, 1801, on one half the schooner Betsey, her cargo and freight, from Grenada to Wiscasset, one thousand dollars on the vessel, five hundred dollars on the cargo, and five hundred dollars on the freight; — the vessel valued at four thousand dollars. The policy was in the usual form, except that at the bottom was a memorandum in these words: “ This risk is against a total loss only, warranted safe the 12th day of April last, in Lat. 29° — Long. 65° 10'.” The defendant subscribed five hundred…
1Opinion of the CourtSewall, J.
This is an action upon a policy of insurance, dated May 19th, 1801, underwritten by the defendant, to insure for the plaintiff the sum of 1000 dollars upon one half of the schooner Betsey, her cargo and freight, from Grenada to Wiscasset; vessel valued at 4000 dollars, and half the insurance being on the vessel, one quarter on the cargo, and one quarter on the freight.
The plaintiff demands a total loss, and avers that on the 15th of April, 1801, the said schooner was, by violent gales, &c., stranded upon the Island of Bermudas, was there wrecked and totally lost, and with her cargo and…
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