American Insurance v. Foster

Citations

• 92 Ill. 334

Syllabus

<p>Insurance—premises left vacant in violation of condition in policy. Where a policy of insurance contained a condition that if the house insured should “become vacant and unoccupied,” without the consent of the secretary of the company indorsed on the policy, the same should become void, and the house did become vacant several months before the loss, and so remained vacant until it was destroyed by fire, no consent thereto being entered on the policy, it was held the house was vacant and unoccupied in violation of the condition, and the assured could not recover.</p>