Abbott v. Hampden Mutual Fire Insurance

— The ninth article of the by-laws of the company, provides among other things, that if the assured shall have sold or alienated the property in whole or in part, without having transferred the policy to the purchaser or the alienee, with the consent of the company, then the policy shall be void and the whole amount of the premium shall be forfeited to the company. The case agreed by the parties does not show, that in the sale or alienation made, (if any was made,) by the plaintiff, of the property insured, he had in any manner the consent of the company. The question upon this branch of She…