SUPREME COURT.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 866, 18 November 1916, Page 11

SUPREME COURT.

AN INSURANCE CASE. DETERMINING RESPONSIBILITY. After The Sun went lo press yesterday the bearing was continued be-1 i fore his Honour Mr Justice Sim in , Ihe Supreme Court of the case in i ! which the New Zealand Insurance! i Company proceeded against Derek Edward Thornton and the Tyneside j Proprietary Company, Ltd., claiming j £231 17/11 for unpaid premium! under an accident insurance policy. Mr 0. T. J. Alpers appeared for the I plaintiff company, Mr Twyneham for the defendant Thornton, and Mr! 1 Wright for the Tvneside Proprietary, i Ltd. Ernest Gregory Pilcher, managing! director of the Tyneside Proprie- j > lary, Ltd., said Ihere was no verbal arrangement that bis company was j to finance the working of the North Brunner mine. All that was done ; was to advance money for coal, which was to be sold by the Tyneside Company, the Company to recoup itself out of sales. Though the insurance policy was kept in the oflice of the Tyneside Company, and was made out in the name of the company, the representative of the Brunner Collieries, Ltd., had no authority from the Tyneside Proprietary to sign the policy. The policy was taken out by Thornton on behalf of Brunner Collieries, Ltd. Thornton had authorised payments not for the Tyneside Proprietary, but on behalf of the Brunner Collieries, Ltd. Evidence was also given by Robert Allison, mining manager for the Tyneside Proprietary ami James Daniel Lynch, a director. Judgment was reserved.