FILLING IN INSURANCE FORMS.
■;/.,-"'j;;-•;„■;>;:■ COURT CASE. IB> Tcleeraph-Pr«« Aiitotlatloni', > ,; ; K.V- Dunedtn, October 2?. ,;Sir'.' Justice ./Williams gayo an important judgment in tho insurance case Samson v.' the Atlas- Insurance Company, involving the position of a policy-holder who signed a blank form, fallowing his,agent to fill in particulars,] onopf which materially misdcscribod ft build, ing which was : destroyed by firo in Juno. AU through,, tho s premises *?erc charged tho rate for a plastered building instead of an unpinstered one,'which it was. The case showed that neither Samson nor his agent were awuio that the building was' misdesenbed.. 'His -Honour: found that slnco tho facts did not show the clerk who filled in tho proposal to bo an agent for tho company for tiio purpose of negotiating an insurance, but only Samson's ''agent/ ii tho statements were untrue in a material- particular tho signatory must take the consequences. Ho held the policy had been rendered void by misrepresentation.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 649, 28 October 1909, Page 7
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