Sage v. Middletown Insurance Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
THIS was an action on a policy of insurance on that brig Ganges and her cargo, at and from Gibraltar to the port of discharge in the United States, with liberty to go to St. Ubes or the Cape de Verd islands. The cause was tried at Middletown, July term 1814, before Swift, Brainard and Baldwin, Js.
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THIS was an action on a policy of insurance on that brig Ganges and her cargo, at and from Gibraltar to the port of discharge in the United States, with liberty to go to St. Ubes or the Cape de Verd islands. The cause was tried at Middletown, July term 1814, before Swift, Brainard and Baldwin, Js. The Ganges sailed from St. Ubes, with a cargo of salt and other articles, and arrived at New-York, her first port in theUnited States, on the 10th of September 1811. E. W. Sage, one of the owners, who was on board as supercargo, immediately wrote to E. Sage, the other owner, at Middletown, for…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
[After stating the case.] The first question presented is, whether the assured could thus touch, tarry and make entry at New-York, without constituting that the port of discharge. On this point I am satisfied with the opinion of the court; but it is not necessary that I should *241give my reasons at large in support of this opinion, because they are given in the case of King v. The Middletown Insurance Company, in which this point was expressly decided, and because I am of opinion that on other grounds a new trial must be granted in this case.
Admitting, then, that the plaintiffs, might, under…
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