HEAD & AMORY v. THE PROVIDENCE INSURANCE COMPANY


6 U.S. 127 (1804)

2 Cranch 127

HEAD & AMORY v. THE PROVIDENCE INSURANCE COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

February 25, 1804.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The case was now argued by J.Q. Adams, of Massachusetts, and Mason attorney for the district of Columbia, on behalf of the plaintiffs in error; and by Hunter, of Rhode-Island, and Martin, attorney-general, of Maryland, for the defendants.

Adams, for the plaintiffs in error.


MARSHALL, Ch. J. delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a declaration on a policy of insurance, and the only question in the case is, whether the policy was vacated by a subsequent agreement between the parties. This question depends entirely on the legal operation of certain written communications between them, which appear in the record.

Messrs. Head & Amory of Boston had obtained insurance through...

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