LOSSES BY FIRE
AN UNSUCCESSFUL CLAIM ALLEGATIONS OF FRAUD. (Per United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, June 18. Allegations that batteries bad been bought for a few pence each, and were then painted and insured for £IOO, were made by counsel appearing for the Northern Assurance Company to-day, in cases where John Howard William Tapp claimed £IOO under a policy on goods destroyed by fire on April 21. During the plaintiff’s evidence he admitted having made mistakes in the policy proposals, and 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 am. The plaintiff was nonsuited, the magistrate saying that the claim was properly a case to be dealt with under the arbitration clause in the policy.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21365, 19 June 1931, Page 10
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132LOSSES BY FIRE Otago Daily Times, Issue 21365, 19 June 1931, Page 10
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