Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1811

Minot v. Durant

Minot v. Durant
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided May 15, 1811
7 Mass. 436

Minot v. Durant

Opinion of the Court

By the Court.

We are all of opinion that the plaintiffs are entitled to recover their proportion of the hire during the whole voyage. The defendant might have employed the vessel in the coasting trade during the continuance of the embargo. But separately from this consideration, parties must be bound by their contracts, if they will not provide against contingencies, as they may, and as the defendant did in this case as to other contingencies.

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