Armenia Ins. v. Paul
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 2, of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1879, No. 300. Covenant on a policy of insurance by Joseph Paul and Mary Ann Paul, his wife, in right of said wife, against the Armenia Insurance Company of Pittsburgh. Paul and his wife kept a saloon in Chartiers borough. The fixtures, liquors and furniture were owned by the wife, and she insured them in the defendant company.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 2, of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1879, No. 300. Covenant on a policy of insurance by Joseph Paul and Mary Ann Paul, his wife, in right of said wife, against the Armenia Insurance Company of Pittsburgh. Paul and his wife kept a saloon in Chartiers borough. The fixtures, liquors and furniture were owned by the wife, and she insured them in the defendant company. In the application for the policy the property was described as situated along “ the line of the Chartiers Valley Railroad and P. C. & St. Louis Railroad, at the junction and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Paxson
The ground upon which the defendant below seeks to prevent a recovery is, that the plaintiffs were guilty of a suppression of facts material to the risk in their application for the policy. The application signed by Mary Ann Paul, the insured, includes a survey of the premises, which survey contains a' large number of printed questions with blanks left for the applicant to sign. Many of these questions were answered, and some of them were not. Among the questions left unanswered was the eleventh interrogatory, in these words: “ External exposure: What is the distance, occupation and materials…
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