INSURANCE ON BUS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17235, 15 April 1930, Page 5

INSURANCE ON BUS

OWNER’S CLAIM I?AILS A PROTECTIVE CLAUSE (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Reserved judgment was delivered by .Mr. .Justice Adams ni the Supreme Court vesteidav, in a claim ltV \\ ■ A. AL l.aren and to., Ltd., against. t}ie New Zealand Insurance to. tor £4OO under a policy of insurance on a motor bliS. Plaintiff hired a motor bus to one Mi Dull' on the usual hire-purchase agreement, and made the proposal to the defendant, company to insure the bus in both names, plaintiff and iMeDull. Defendants accepted the proposal anil issued the policy accordingly, hut the policy contained a proviso treeing the defendants from liability for or damage by tire if the bus was driven in a damaged or unsafe condition. The judge found as a fact that the bus was driven in such a condition, and that this brought the ease within tinplain terms of the proviso. It was idle, said His Honor, for plaintiffs to ask the court to strike out- a material levin in the contract to which they had agreed, and for which they had doubtless received consideration hv a. reduction of premium. -Judgment was given for defendants with costs.