INSURANCE DECISION
AN IMPORTANT POINT. . ll*Ktt PIIKSS ASSOCT ATION. I • - DUNEDIN, Oct. 27. Mr Justice -Williams' judgment was read this morning on an important insurance case, Samson versus Atlas Insurance Company, involving the position of a policy-holder who signed a blank form, allowing his clerk to fill in particulars, one of which particulars materially misdescribed a building which was destroyed by fire in June. All through the premises were charged at the rate of a plastered building, instead of as unplastered, which it was. The, case showed that neither Samson nortnor his agent were aware that the building was misdescribed. His' Honor found that- since the facts did not show the clerk who filled; in the proposal to be agent for the company for the purpose of negotiating insurance, but only as Samson's agent, if the statements were untrue m a material particular, the signatory must take the consequences. He.held that the policy was rendered void by misrepresentation.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2644, 28 October 1909, Page 3
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158INSURANCE DECISION Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2644, 28 October 1909, Page 3
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