AN INSURANCE CASE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 17, 8 June 1914, Page 5

AN INSURANCE CASE.

VERDICT FOK THK COMPANY. Uy XciegrajjJi— i'rcss Asoouiation. Auekkuul, fckvturdkiy. In the Supreme Court, Jiuige Vaunt gave judgment m an Jnsuir.uijce ciuim by Aickie Bros., ianu«'4 near Oim■bridge, against tiio Liverpool, London, and Uloho Insurance Company. Plaintiffs purchased from the Seventh Day Advcntists a property at Pukekura, witn a large wooden building, and insured with the defendant Company by the plaintiffs for £4OO on July 11), IM2. and it wag totally destroyed .by are on December 23, 1912. It was stated that the building was also insured with the Standard Insurance Company fo r £2OOO and that the Standard- rejected the claim. Judge Cooper -we judgment against plaintiffs. Sufficient notice of the fire Jiad been given, but the company repudiated all liability. Condition I*3 of the policy said that all benefits under the policy would .he forfeited :if a claim be made and rejected, and the action or i- c !Uit noit conunended within tliree - months. The condition was not untrca- ■ nonable, involved no hardship, and it was plaintiff's own fault that they, without ! reason, delayed commencing tihe acition ■ until six weeks after the expiration of the period of three months.