Bartlett v. Union Mutual Fire Insurance
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On Report. This was an action upon a policy of insurance. It was referred to the full bench for its decision, with authority to draw such inferences from the testimony as a jury might, and render such judgment as, in its opinion, law and justice require. The points in controversy will sufficiently appear in ‘the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the Court
*501The opinion of the Court was drawn up by
Appleton, J.
The defendants were incorporated by the Legislature of New Hampshire. By section 8 of their charter, it is enacted that, “in case of any loss or damage by fire, happening to any member, upon any property insured in and with said company, of either class, the said member shall give notice thereof in writing, to the directors, or some one of them, or to the secretary of said company, within thirty days from the time such loss or damage may have happened, under oath,” &c.
By the by-laws of the defendant corporation, art. 15, the insured is…
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