Woodbury Savings Bank & Building Ass'n v. Charter Oak Fire & Marine Insurance
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Bill in equity for the correction of a policy of insurance, and for an injunction against a defense set up by the respondents in an action at law on the policy. The superior court made a special finding of the facts.
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Bill in equity for the correction of a policy of insurance, and for an injunction against a defense set up by the respondents in an action at law on the policy. The superior court made a special finding of the facts. On the first of August, 1857, Henry S. Parsons, of New Haven, was the agent of the respondents, who were located at the city of Hartford, with the usual powers of the local agents of insurance' companies, to obtain risks and issue policies of insurance, and with the assent of the company he had advertised in the newspapers and otherwise as agent. The officers of the company had…
1Opinion of the CourtDutton, J.
The respondents, issued their policy intending to insure the petitioners on a mortgage interest which they held in the property in question. The agent of the petitioners represented to the local agent of the respondents what their object was, and that the legal title to the property had become so complicated and doubtful that he could not accurately describe it, and requested him to make the necessary examinations and issue such a policy as would insure their interest. This the agent attempted to do, but through mistake and misapprehension as to the proper mode of doing it, he made out the…
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