This case comes up on a writ of error to the circuit court of the district of Columbia for the county of Alexandria.
It is an action upon a policy of insurance bearing date the 28th of May 1825, on the brig Hope, on a voyage from Alexandria to Barbadoes, and back to a port in the United States. The vessel is valued at three thousand dollars, and the sum insured...
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