Hale v. Washington Ins.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
[Appeal from the district court of the United States for the district of Massachusetts.] Libel [by Samuel Hale and another,] on a policy of insurance, on the ship Columbia, for $12,000, dated the fourth of February, 1840, for one year, from the eighth day of the preceding January.
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[Appeal from the district court of the United States for the district of Massachusetts.] Libel [by Samuel Hale and another,] on a policy of insurance, on the ship Columbia, for $12,000, dated the fourth of February, 1840, for one year, from the eighth day of the preceding January. Ship valued at $32,000. It appeared from the libel, that the Columbia, in the course of a voyage from Liverpool (England) to New Orleans, via New York, on the 9th of April, 1.840, in sailing down St. George’s channel, by the fault or mistake of the mate and crew of the Columbia, came in collision with an English…
1Opinion of the Court
STORY, Circuit Justice.
This is an appeal from a decree of the district court, sitting in admiralty, upon a libel brought upon a policy of insurance. Nearly twenty-seven years have elapsed since in the case of Do *192Lovio v. Bolt [Case No. 3,776] I had occasion to consider and to affirm the jurisdiction of the district courts of the United States, as courts of admiralty, over policies of insurance. I have not unfrequently been called upon in the intermediate period to re-examine the same subject, and I wish now only to state, that I deliberately adhere to the doctrine therein stated. Indeed, in…
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