WIDOW’S CLAIM FAILS
INSURANCE MONEYS FACTS NOT DISCLOSED (Per Press Association.) HAMILTON, this day. Stating that on the plaintiff’s own case, it was shown that Francis had not made a complete disclosure of the facts which the company should know, Mr. Justice Blair, in the Supreme Court to-day entered a nonsuit in the case where Gladys Francis, a widow, Auckland, sought £IOO4 from the A.M.P. Society, as money payable from an insurance policy held by Stanley Charles Francis, a former motor agent, Hamilton, deceased.
The original policy lapsed for two months through non-payment and when filling the reinstatement forms Francis failed to disclose the .fact that he had taken out a prohibition order or of his drinking habits leading up to it.
His Honour said the reinstatement of the policy is ail insurance transaction where both parties must keep good faith and the company was entitled to know the full facts.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20017, 16 August 1939, Page 6
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