Sheridan v. Massachusetts Fire & Marine Insurance
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract against an insurance corporation, incorporated under the laws of this Commonwealth, on an oral contract, alleged to have been made by one Crowley as the agent of the defendant, insuring a motor car of the plaintiff against fire or theft until a policy for such insurance could be issued, the plaintiff’s car having been stolen while such alleged oral contract was in force.
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Contract against an insurance corporation, incorporated under the laws of this Commonwealth, on an oral contract, alleged to have been made by one Crowley as the agent of the defendant, insuring a motor car of the plaintiff against fire or theft until a policy for such insurance could be issued, the plaintiff’s car having been stolen while such alleged oral contract was in force. Writ dated October 22, 1917. The answer, besides a general denial, denied specifically that Crowley was an agent of the defendant or was in any way authorized to make temporary oral insurance pending the issuing of…
1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.
In the month of February, 1916, one Crowley, an insurance broker, called upon the plaintiff and solicited from him the placing of a policy insuring the plaintiff’s automobile from loss by fire or theft. The plaintiff signed an application therefor which was delivered by Crowley to John C. Paige and Company, the defendant’s general agent; and the latter on February 10, 1916, issued to the plaintiff a policy by the terms of which the automobile was insured against loss by fire and theft in the sum of $800 for one year from February 4, 1916.
In the month of January, 1917, the agent sent to…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Sanford v. Orient InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1899
- Green v. Star Fire InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1906
- McQuaid v. Ætna InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1917
- Deane v. American Glue Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1909
- Commonwealth Mutual Fire Insurance v. Fairbank Canning Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1899
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- American Casualty Co. v. RicasCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1941
- Michelson v. Franklin Fire Insurance Co. of PhiladelphiaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1925
- Century Indemnity Co. v. JamesonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1956
- Mayflower Seafoods, Inc. v. Integrity Credit Corp.Massachusetts Appeals Court · 1988
- Commercial Casualty Insurance v. MansfieldSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1953
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