Wood v. Firemen's Fire Insurance

The plaintiff by one Bean, an insurance broker, procured a policy of insurance in the defendant company, upon several oil paintings in his dwelling-house, the estimated value *317of each being stated in the policy. At the end of a written application for insurance, given by the plaintiff to Bean, and exhibited by the latter to the president of the company, was a written statement that the original of one of the paintings, called “ Christ crowned with Thorns,” was by Leonardo da Vinci, that it was then in the Vatican or in one of the churches at Rome, under the care of the Pope, and could not be…