Hazard's Administrator v. New England Marine Insurance

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• \Underwriters are presumed to know the usages and customs of all of the places from or to which they make insurances.\
• \Underwriters are presumed to know the usages and customs of all of the places from or to which they make insurances.\
• “Underwriters are presumed to know the usages and customs of all of the places from or to which they make insurances.”
• a misrepresentation that a ship was “coppered” would void the policy, and it was “immaterial in what way the loss may arise”
• \[T]he terms of the application are to be understood according to the ordinary sense and usage of those terms... unless the underwriter knows that a different sense and usage prevail... [or] that the [insured] uses the words in a different sense and usage....\
• “[T]he terms of the application are to be understood according to the ordinary sense and usage of those terms ... unless the underwriter knows that a different sense and usage prevail ... [or] that the [insured] uses the words in a different sense and usage....”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).