Millaudon v. Atlantic Insurance
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL PROM THE PARISH COURT, POR THE PARISH AND CITE OP ■ NEW-ORLEANS. This is an action on a policy of insurance against fire, subscribed by the defendants. The plaintiff alleges he took out a policy of insurance, in the office of the defendants, on the 2d of September, 1834, insuring him from loss or damage by fire, “ on goods, being stock in trade, on consignment, or held in trust,” contained in five tenements or stores, on the corner of Commerce and Julia streets.
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APPEAL PROM THE PARISH COURT, POR THE PARISH AND CITE OP ■ NEW-ORLEANS. This is an action on a policy of insurance against fire, subscribed by the defendants. The plaintiff alleges he took out a policy of insurance, in the office of the defendants, on the 2d of September, 1834, insuring him from loss or damage by fire, “ on goods, being stock in trade, on consignment, or held in trust,” contained in five tenements or stores, on the corner of Commerce and Julia streets. That said stores and goods therein were destroyed “by fire on the night of the 25th of October following, during the…
1Opinion of the CourtBullard, J.
The present action is brought upon a policy subscribed by the defendants, by which they undertook to insure the plaintiff from loss by fire, on goods, being stock'in trade, on consignment, or held .in trust, contained in five tenements situated at the corner of'Commerce and Julia streets, twenty thousand dollars, the same sum having been previously insured on the same, at the Mississippi office.
The defendants, after setting up an exception, which was overruled, arid which we - will notice afterwards, deny that the plaintiff has sustained any loss or damage covered by the policy'; and aver,…
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