Hambleton v. Home Ins.
U.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illnois
This was a bill in equity [by Chalkley J. Hambleton against the Home Insurance Company of New York] to enforce an alleged verbal contract of renewal of a policy of insurance issued by the company on the second day of October, 1869, to indemnify the plaintiff for loss on buildings owned by complainant in Chicago,- and destroyed by fire on the 9th of October, 1871. The original policy provided that neither it nor any renewal thereof should take effect until the premium was…
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This was a bill in equity [by Chalkley J. Hambleton against the Home Insurance Company of New York] to enforce an alleged verbal contract of renewal of a policy of insurance issued by the company on the second day of October, 1869, to indemnify the plaintiff for loss on buildings owned by complainant in Chicago,- and destroyed by fire on the 9th of October, 1871. The original policy provided that neither it nor any renewal thereof should take effect until the premium was paid by the assured. The original policy was given for one year, and was reneYved from time to time, up to October 2nd,…
1Opinion of the Court
DRUMMOND, Circuit Judge.
It is claimed on the part of the plaintiff that this policy was renewed for another year from October, 2nd, 1871. The facts seem to be that Mr. Dunning, of the firm of Dunning & Easton, was the plaintiff’s agent for the property, the subject of the insurance.
Mr. Parsons, the renewal solicitor of the defendant, in September or October, 1871, called at the office of Dunning & Easton, but did not find Mr. Dunning in, and left without stating his business. The second time, he was asked by Easton what his business was, and he stated that it related to the insurance of the…
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