Georgia Insurance & Trust Co. v. Dawson
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Baltimore County Court. This was an attachment commenced on the 9th October 1840, by the appellees against the appellants, upon the following contract of insurance, viz : “Policy No. 31. Insured $3,500. Baltimore, 11th November, 1837. In consideration of the sum of seventeen dollars, fifty cents, the Georgia Insurance and Trust Company do hereby insure William Dawson and Co., and whom it may concern, against all risks to the amount of thirty-five hundred dollars,…
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Appeal from Baltimore County Court. This was an attachment commenced on the 9th October 1840, by the appellees against the appellants, upon the following contract of insurance, viz : “Policy No. 31. Insured $3,500. Baltimore, 11th November, 1837. In consideration of the sum of seventeen dollars, fifty cents, the Georgia Insurance and Trust Company do hereby insure William Dawson and Co., and whom it may concern, against all risks to the amount of thirty-five hundred dollars, on three hundred boxes tin valued .thereat, shipped, or to be shipped on board the schooner Edward Vincent, at and from…
1Opinion of the CourtMagruder, J.
The defendants in error, being about to ship a quantity of tin from New York to Baltimore, the plaintiff in error undertook, for the premium agreed upon, to insure the same to the amount of $3,500, shipped, or to be shipped on board the schooner Edward Vincent, at and from New York to Baltimore.
On the voyage, the vessel encountered gales and storms, which caused her to leak badly, and the tin insured was discovered, on its arrival at Baltimore, to be damaged by salt water, in consequence of the gales and storms, which the ves*369sel encountered, and for the amount of the damages done to the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- The Columbia Insurance Company of Alexandria, in Error v. Joseph W. Lawrence, Who Survived Thomas PoindexterSupreme Court of the United States · 1836
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