VOID INSURANCE POLICY.
BUILDING WRONGLY DESCRIBED.
[BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION'.]
, ■ Dunedin, Wednesday. I The judgment of ! Miv Justice Williams was read this morning in an important insurance case, Samson v. the Atlas Insurance Company, involving the position of a policy-holder who signed a blank form, allowing his agent to fill in particulars, ono of which particulars materially misdescribed; the "building, which ; was destroyed .by fire in June., All through the premises woro charged at the rale of [ a plastered ' building, instead of tmplastered,' which it was. The case showed that neither; Samson' nor his agent were aware that; the building was misdoscribed. His Honor found that since the'facts did not- show the clerk who filled the proposal in to bo an agent for the company for the purpose of negotiating insurance, but only Samson's agent, if the statements were untrue in any j material particular the signatory must take the consequences. He, therefore, held that the policy was rendered void by misrepresentation.;. 1 ; '■.';■■;,;. ■-.'• .'^:'>' : *,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14203, 28 October 1909, Page 5
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163VOID INSURANCE POLICY. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14203, 28 October 1909, Page 5
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