Putman v. Deinhamer

Appellants’ first proposition is that the policy provision giving the company the right to cancel at will by mailing notice to the assured and the lapse of at least five days after mailing, but without requirement that the notice must be received by or known to the assured, is void as against public policy. The cancellation provisions in the present policy are the same as in Wisconsin Nat. Gas Co. v. Employers Mut. L. Ins. Co. (1953), 263 Wis. 633, 58 N. W. (2d) 424, where we recognized their validity. Appellants say that the court was concerned then only with the form of cancellation while…