Hennessey v. Traders Insurance

Citations

• 87 Miss. 259
• 39 So. 692

Syllabus

<p>Libel. Insurance advertisement.</p> <p>It is not libelous for a fire-insurance company to publish a statement to the effect that while a rival company may have “settled”' losses growing out of a certain fire before it had done so, yet the-rival company did not pay them first, and at the latest account that company's money for the payment of its losses had not shown up, adding: “Moral: Insure in this [defendant] company. Losses paid promptly, not ‘settled.’ ”</p>