Northern Assur. Co. of London v. Grand View Bldg. Ass'n
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to tke Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Nebraska.
1Opinion of the Court
THAYER, Circuit Judge.
The general question which arises in this case is whether an insurance company should be permitted to take advantage of a condition contained in one of its policies to avoid the payment of a loss that has been sustained thereunder, when it appears that the fact rendering the policy void, by the terms of the condition which is pleaded as a defense, was an existent fact, known to the insurer at the time it issued its policy and accepted the premium, which for that reason rendered the policy void, if at all, from the moment it was delivered. The question arises in this way:…
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