Norton v. Lexington Fire, Life & Marine Insurance
Illinois Supreme Court
It appears from the record, that on the application of Norton, Walter & Company, the schooner Buena Vista was insured to them for $4,000 by the Lexington Fire, Life and Marine Insurance Company.
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It appears from the record, that on the application of Norton, Walter & Company, the schooner Buena Vista was insured to them for $4,000 by the Lexington Fire, Life and Marine Insurance Company. That on the 27th day of November, 1850, she, with a cargo of stone coal and pig iron, in a storm was wrecked near False Presque Isle, in Lake Huron, on an uninhabited coast, 150 miles or more through forest, to a settlement; with no means to be procured for getting her off; at a season of the year when navigation was closed or nearly so; the weather and water too cold to admit of working in it, and…
1Opinion of the Court
Catón, J.
On the first day of April, 1850, the Lexington Eire, Life and Marine Insurance Company executed a policy of insurance on the schooner Buena Vista, valued in the policy at six thousand dollars. The risk taken on the schooner was four thousand dollars, to continue until the first day of December, 1850. On the night of the twenty-seventh of December, 1850, while upon a voyage from Buffalo to Waukegan and Chicago, with a cargo of pig iron and coal, the vessel went ashore on the point of False Presque Isle, in lake Huron, and was soon after abandoned by the captain and crew. On the…
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