Richardson v. Maine Insurance
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On Report. This was an action brought on a policy of insurance issued by the defendants. All the essential facts in the case aye stated in the opinion of the Court. 1. The only application made by the plaintiff, was by his letter to the agent, and he was not bound by the application signed for him by the agent, without his knowledge. 2. The statement that there was “no mortgage-,” though untrue, was not an essential misrepresentation. Strong v. Manufacturing Ins.
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On Report. This was an action brought on a policy of insurance issued by the defendants. All the essential facts in the case aye stated in the opinion of the Court. 1. The only application made by the plaintiff, was by his letter to the agent, and he was not bound by the application signed for him by the agent, without his knowledge. 2. The statement that there was “no mortgage-,” though untrue, was not an essential misrepresentation. Strong v. Manufacturing Ins. Co., 10 Pick., 40; Curry v. Com. Ins. Co. 10 Pick., 535. ' 3. The plaintiff, by accepting the policy, only covenants that the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was drawn by
Tenney, C. J.
Israel Cox was the agent of the Maine Insurance Company, in soliciting applications for insurance. In the month of August, in the year 1855, he was at the plaintiff’s place of business in Jonesborough, and viewed his store and took some admeasurements, and represented to him that he was ready to obtain insurance on his buildings, &c., but at that time no application was made by the plaintiff.
On Sept. 25, 1855, the plaintiff wrote to Cox, requesting him to obtain, in some good stock insurance company, insurance on his store and goods, and on…
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