INSURANCE DISPUTE.
JUDGE RESERVES DECISION.
Decision was reserved yesterday by Mr. Justice Smith in the action in the Supreme Court in which tho Auckland Municipal Corporation asked for a writ of mandamus compelling the Mercantile and General Insurance Company to expend £SOO, the amount of insurance, in rebuilding and reinstating a house which had been destroyed by firo. Tho property concerned was in Totara Street, Ponsonby, and had boen leased by tho City Council to Mrs. Mary Brown, who afterwards sold her lease to a Mrs. Smith. The insurance had been takon out by Mrs. Brown, and tho company had refused payment on the ground that in the proposal form, filled up by an insurance inspector after signature, the property had been wrongly described as freehold.
The hearing w?s begun on Thursday, and was completed yesterday, when legal argument was heard. Mr. Stanton and Mr. Butler appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Cornish, of Wellington, and Mr. Glaister for the defendant.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20496, 22 February 1930, Page 14
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