GENERAL MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY v. SHERWOOD


55 U.S. 351 (1852)

14 How. 351

THE GENERAL MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, PLAINTIFFS IN ERROR, v. EBENEZER B. SHERWOOD.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was argued by Mr. A. Hamilton, Jr., for the plaintiffs in error, and Mr. Butler, with whom was Mr. Cutting, for the defendant in error.


Mr. Justice CURTIS delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a writ of error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

The action was assumpsit on a time policy of insurance, subscribed by the plaintiffs in error, upon the brig Emily, during one year from the seventeenth day of October, 1843, for the sum of eight thousand dollars, the vessel being valued at the sum of sixteen...

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