Edwards v. Baltimore Fire Insurance
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Baltimore county court. This was an action of covenant upon a policy of insurance against fire, brought on the 12th Noyefnber 1842, by the appellant against the appellee, who pleaded non infregit conventionem. The plaintiff, to support the issue on his part, gave in evidence his application for insurance.
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Appeal from Baltimore county court. This was an action of covenant upon a policy of insurance against fire, brought on the 12th Noyefnber 1842, by the appellant against the appellee, who pleaded non infregit conventionem. The plaintiff, to support the issue on his part, gave in evidence his application for insurance. Baltimore, Sept. 28th, 1839. To the President and Directors of The Baltimore Fire Insurance Co., The subscribers want insurance on account of Richard Edwards,—desire to be insured against loss or damage by fire, for the term of one year, to the amount of $5000, on the property…
1Opinion of the CourtDorsey, J.
The hill of exceptions taken by the appellant in this cause, is to the county court’s refusal to grant the prayer made by him, and to the granting of the third prayer of the defendants.
The plaintiff prayed the court to instruct the jury, “that if they believed the facts set out in the foregoing statement, the defendants have waived the adduction, by the plaintiff, of the preliminary proofs required by the conditions annexed to said policy of insurance, and that such waiver dispenses the plaintiff from now offering evidence of his having furnished the same.”
Assuming, that the letter of the…
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