Hench v. Agricultural Ins.

Citations

• 122 Pa. 128
• 2 W.N.C. 428
• 15 A. 671
• 1888 Pa. LEXIS 600

Syllabus

<p>A condition in a policy of fire insurance that if the property insured shall become incumbered by mortgage, judgment or otherwise, the policy shall be null and void unless the written consent of the company be obtained, is broken when an incumbrance falls upon the property, whether the assured has actual knowledge of it or not, and no recovery can be had without a continuance of the policy by the written consent of the company: Penn. M. F. Ins. Co. v. Schmidt, 119 Pa. 449, followed.</p>