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insurance Company Vs. Boon

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jan 01, 1877

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  10. U.S. 117 (1877) U.S. Supreme Court Insurance Company v. Boon
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  11. U.S. 117 (1877) Insurance Company v. Boon
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  12. may be made at a subsequent term, and directed to be entered and become of record as of a former term. In Rhoads v. The
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  13. if another be bad, and the minutes of the judge show that the evidence sustained the good one. Matheson's Adm'r v. Grant's
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  14. should be construed most strongly against the underwriters and most favorably to the assured. Manhattan Insurance Co. v. Stein
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  15. them, the nature of the contract, the objects to be attained, and all the circumstances must be considered. Cushman v. United
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  16. nisi prius case of a vessel burnt by the master and crew to prevent its falling into the hands of the enemy, Gordon v. Rimmington
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  17. In Brady v. Northwestern
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  18. In St. John v. American
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  19. Policies of insurance do not protect an assured against his voluntary destruction of the thing insured. Yet in Gordon v. Rimmington
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  20. is not doubted all that destruction is caused by the fire, and insurers against fire are held liable for it. In Lynd v. Tynsboro'
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  21. as the actual, the dominating, cause. And in this Court similar doctrine has been asserted Insurance Company v. Tweed
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  22. though the other causes may follow it and operate more immediately in producing the disaster. In Butler v. Wildman
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  23. A similar doctrine was asserted in Barton v. Home
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  24. Insurance Co., 42 Mo. 156, and in Marcy v. Merchants'
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  25. mere instrument, though the latter may be nearest in place and time to the loss. In Milwaukee & Saint Paul Railway Co. v. Kellogg
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  26. form one continuous whole. The case is therefore clearly within the doctrine asserted by Emerigon, and held in Butler v. Wildman
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  27. Copelin v. Insurance
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  28. venire facias de novo by the appellate court for some error of law which intervened in the proceedings. Parsons v. Bedford
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  29. the place of the jury, its finding of facts is conclusive, precisely as if a jury had found them by verdict. Basset v. United
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  30. by the party at the trial, but that it may be drawn out and signed or sealed by the judge afterwards. United States v. Breitling
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  31. signed, nor entered of record until the next term, nearly five months after the judgment was rendered. Flanders v. Tweed
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  32. point as to the legal effect of a general finding of the circuit court is expressly adjudged and determined. Cooper v. Omohundro
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  33. giving the circuit court the same power in that regard as has always been possessed by a jury. Insurance Company v. Folsom
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  34. resting in parol may be incorporated into the record for the inspection of the proper appellate tribunal. Suydam v. Williamson
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  35. of the court, are not a part of the record, and nothing therein contained can be assigned for error. Williams v. Norris
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  36. Medbury v. State
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  37. of the court below does not constitute such a formal finding as that required in such a case. Insurance Company v. Tweed
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  38. Dickinson v. The
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  39. finding, but rather as a ground to show why the judge came to the conclusion set forth in the record. Dickinson v. The
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  40. it may, in the discretion of the judge, be drawn out, and be signed or sealed by the judge afterwards. United States v. Breitling
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  41. How. 252. Decided cases to the same effect are numerous. It is a settled principle, say the court, in Walton v. United
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  42. certainty, and, where that is done, it may be reduced to form, and be signed by the judge during the term. Stanton v. Embry
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  43. the record shows that the plaintiffs in the mean time had taken out execution for the amount of the judgment. Muller v. Ehlers
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  44. the court Page 95 U. S. 143 was bound to disregard it, and to treat it as no part of the record. Flanders v. Tweed
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  45. expired, it is clear that the court below had not at that time any power supply a special finding of facts. Noonan v. Bradley
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  46. Washington Bridge Co. v. Stewart
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  47. Skillin's Ex'rs v. May's
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  48. Martin v. Hunter's
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  49. U.S. Supreme Court Insurance Company v. Boon
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  50. In Rhoads v. The
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