Carrere v. The Union Insurance Company of Maryland
3 H&J 324 (1813)
The plaintiff, (the appellant,) at the trial, read in evidence a policy of insurance, executed to him by the defendants, under their common seal, on the 5th of June 1806, in the usual form, from Baltimore to Bourdeaux, upon all kinds of lawful goods and merchandize, laden or to be laden, on board
the schooner Venus, at the rate of 4 pr. ct. to the amount of $ 20,000, warranted to be American
property, proof of which, in case of need, to be required in the United States only. He also
gave in evidence, that on the 28th of June 1806, he shipped on board the Venus, at the port of
Baltimore, certain goods and merchandizes then belonging to him, viz. 44 hogsheads of clayed
sugar, 41 hogsheads brown sugar, 23 barrels of clayed sugar, 101 bags Carracas cocoa, and 308
bags of cotton, which were accompanied by a manifest, bills of lading, and proof of property, in
due and regular form. That at the time of making of the policy and shipment, the plaintiff was a
citizen of the U. S. residing in Baltimore. That the schooner Venus did regularly clear out
on her said voyage from Baltimore to Bourdeaux, on the 2d of July 1806, and sailed on the 7th,
with the above mentioned goods, papers and documents, on board, and in the regular prosecution
of her said voyage she was, on the 24th of July 1806, captured on the high seas by a British sloop
of war, and carried into Halifux in Nova Scotia, where the goods were libelled as prize, and
condemned as such on the 9th of September 1806, in the vice admiralty court there, and thereby
totally lost to the plaintiff.
Judges: Jeremiah Townley Chase; John Johnson; John Buchanan.
Attorneys: Walter Dorsey and Robert Goodloe Harper for Appellant; Luther Martin, William Pinkney, and John Purviance for Appellees.
Appellate Court Records:
COURT OF APPEALS (Docket) Carrere v. The Union Insurance Company of Maryland, 1813, December Term, no. 24 [MSA S414-5, 1/66/14/23].
COURT OF APPEALS (Notes on Arguments and Opinions, Western Shore) Carrere v. The Union Insurance Company of Maryland, 1813, December Term, no. 24, p. 215-236 [MSA S428-5, 1/67/6/20].
COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments, Western Shore) Carrere v. The Union Insurance Company of Maryland, 1813, December Term, no. 24 [MSA S382-30, 1/62/7/40].
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