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LIFE AND FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK v. ADAMS

34 U.S. 573 (____)

9 Pet. 573

THE LIFE AND FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK v. CHRISTOPHER ADAMS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The case was argued by Mr Butler, attorney-general, and Mr Jones, for the petitioners; and by Mr Clay and Mr Porter, against the mandamus.

Mr Chief Justice MARSHALL delivered the opinion of the Court.

The petition for a mandamus states, among other things, that Christopher Adams of Iberville, in Louisiana, on the 16th day of January 1824, at New Orleans, executed and acknowledged before a notary public, a mortgage of a plantation, called the Belle Plantation, in Iberville, with seventy slaves, for securing to the petitioners divers sums of money, amounting to...

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