INSURANCE CLAIM.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 16, 29 October 1938, Page 11

INSURANCE CLAIM.

SUM OF £2OOO INVOLVED. JURY FINDS FOR. PLAINTIFF. * (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, October 28. Claiming £2OOO life insurance, the Perpetual Trustees Estate and Agency Company of New Zealand, Ltd., as executors for the late Ernest Ackerman Smith, of Lincoln, proceeded against the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society, Ltd., before Mr Justice Northcroft and a jury in the Supreme Court to-day. The case turned on whether Smith, in hjs application for an insurance policy, had misrepresented or concealed facts about his health, as he became a claim on the insurance company a few months after taking out the policy. The jury decided that there was no misrepresentation or concealment in Smith’s answers to the questions set out by the insurance company in the proposal, and his personal statement was completed before the insurance policy was issued. On the jury returning its verdict, Mr A. T. Donneily, for plaintiff, moved for

judgment. Mr W. J. Sim, for defendant, asked for an extension of time to move for a new trial, and 14 days were granted. The case was adjourned, and all questions of law were reserved.