Greene ex rel. Noble v. Lycoming Fire Insurance
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to tbe Court of Common Pleas of Drie county: Of October and November Term 1879, No. 223. Assumpsit by Elvira J. Greene, to the use of Orange Noble and L. H. Hall, against The Lycoming Fire Insurance Company. The material facts will be found in the opinion of this court.
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Error to tbe Court of Common Pleas of Drie county: Of October and November Term 1879, No. 223. Assumpsit by Elvira J. Greene, to the use of Orange Noble and L. H. Hall, against The Lycoming Fire Insurance Company. The material facts will be found in the opinion of this court. If the company made Thompson their agent, clothed him with the power to take applications, receive and deliver policies, and receive premiums, and he has exceeded his authority by certifying to the sheriff that he had insured this house, when in fact he had not, and thereby Noble & Hall have suffered a loss, the company…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Mercur
All the assignments of error relate to the liability of the defendant for the acts of C. O. Thompson. The plaintiffs claim they establish either a contract or an estoppel. Noble & Hall held a judgment, secured by a mortgage, against Greene and wife, which was a lien on a lot, with a large frame building thereon, situate at Tidioute, the title to which was in the wife. They issued execution and levied on the premises. Greene and wife desired the time of payment extended. A written agreement, dated 9th February 1875, was thereupon entered into between the parties to the judgment, by which…
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