Legal Opinion
Adams v. Manufacturers' & Builders' Fire Ins.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Rhode Island
Decided August 23, 1883PublishedCited by 4 opinions
At Law.
1Opinion of the CourtLowell, J.
At the trial ot this cause a verdict was ordered for the plaintiff, subject to the opinion of the court upon questions of law.
The defendants, a company incorporated in New York, insured $1,500 upon the plaintiff’s mill, machinery, etc., situated at Attleborough, Massachusetts, by a policy dated and issued October 1, 1881, payable to certain mortgagees. The plaintiff lives in Pawtucket, and the insurance was obtained by the insurance agents, Stark-weather and Shepley, doing business at Providence, of B. S. Babbitt, of the same place, local agent of the defendants, and was forwarded to the…
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- Adams v. OtterbackSupreme Court of the United States · 1854
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