AN INSURANCE CASE.
AJJ IMPORTANT DECISION.
By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dmiodin. October 27. Air. Justice Williams' judgment was .lead tins morning in an important insurance case, that of Samson v. the Atlas' insurance Coiiipiinv, involving the position of a policy-holder who signed a Wank form, allowing his agent to till I in particulars, one of ~-lm-l, particulars materially misdescribed ■., UuiUUv which was destroyed by lire in ,lunc.° All the premises were charged at ' the rate of a plastered building instead
of an unplastered one, which it was Hie case showed that neither Sampson nor hi* agent was aware that the building was' misdescribed. His Honor found that since the facts did not show the clerk who filled the proposal i„ to be an agent of the company for the purpose of negotiating an 'insurance but only Samson's agent, if the statements were untrue in any material particular, the signatory must take the consequence. He held that the policy bad bc e ii rendered void by misrepresentation.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 226, 29 October 1909, Page 3
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165AN INSURANCE CASE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 226, 29 October 1909, Page 3
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