Michigan State Insurance v. Lewis

On the 22d day of April, 1871, Lewis made application to the plaintiff in error for insurance to the amount of two thousand three hundred dollars, on his dwelling house and other buildings and the contents thereof, situate in the township of Oakland. The application was prepared by one Buzzell, an agent of the insurance company, and contained a covenant of the correctness of its recitals. Among other things it stated the premises to be encumbered by a mortgage of “near five thousand three hundred dollars.” In fact, the mortgage was given three years before, for five thousand three hundred and…