FIRE INSURANGE CLAIM
SERIOCS ALLEGATIONS MADE. COUNSEL’S SUGGESTION. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH. June 18. Allegations that batteries had been bought at a few pence each, and were then painted and insured for LIOO, were made by counsel appearing for Northern Assurance Company to-day, in a case where John Howard William Tapp claimed .£IOO under a policy, on goods destrpyel by a fire on April 21. During plaintiff’s evidence he admitted having made mistakes in his policy proposal, Cross-examined by counsel for the Company, he refused to answer certain questions and declared: “You are .suggesting that this fire was purposely done.” Counsel:—“Yes, I do.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1931, Page 5
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