BIAYS v. CHESAPEAKE INS. CO.


11 U.S. 415 (1813)

7 Cranch 415

BIAYS v. THE CHESAPEAKE INSURANCE COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

March 6, 1813.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

HARPER for Plaintiff in error.

... . TODD,


LIVINGSTON, J. delivered the opinion of the Court as follows:

This is an insurance on hides, "warranted by the "assured free from average, unless general." — The declaration is for a total loss by perils of the seas, but it came out in evidence, that 3,280 hides (the whole number insured being 14,565,) were put on board of a lighter to be transported from the vessel to their place of destination — that...

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