Hallock v. Commercial Insurance
Supreme Court of New Jersey
An action of trespass on the case was brought in this court by George W. Hallock against the Commercial Insurance Company. The plaintiff declared on a policy of insurance, and the defendants pleaded the general issue.
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An action of trespass on the case was brought in this court by George W. Hallock against the Commercial Insurance Company. The plaintiff declared on a policy of insurance, and the defendants pleaded the general issue. The case was tried at the Hudson Circuit, before a jury, at May Term, 1856. By the evidence on the trial, it appeared that, during the month of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, and before and after that time, George W. Breck, of Bath, Steuben county, in the State of New York, was agent of the defendants, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, who were an insurance…
1Opinion of the CourtVredenburgh, J.
G. W. Breck was the agent of the defendants at Bath, New York, to make surveys, receive proposals for insurance, and receive premiums on risks accepted by the company, but was not authorized to make insurances or issue policies. The proposals for insurance were sent by him to the company at Jersey City, and if accepted by them, the policies were to be sent to him to deliver.
On the 2d of March, 1855, the plaintiff applied to him to insure his building in Bath, for one year from the 10th of March, for $1200. Breck made the survey, and told him what the premium! would be. The plaintiff thereupon…
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