SMITH & BUCHANAN v. DELAWARE INS. CO.


11 U.S. 434 (1813)

7 Cranch 434

SMITH AND BUCHANAN v. THE DELAWARE INSURANCE COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

March 9, 1813.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

PINKNEY, Attorney General, for Plaintiffs in error.

HARPER, contra.

... . WASHINGTON, TODD,


MARSHALL, Ch. J.

The case is too plain for argument. The jury did not intend to find a general verdict; but to submit the points of law to the Court. If the law had been for the Plaintiffs the Court could only have awarded a venire de novo. The facts ought to have appeared, so that the judgment might have been either reversed or affirmed upon the merits.

Judgment reversed, and a new trial...

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