Mitchell v. Ætna Insurance

Citations

• 111 Miss. 253
• 71 So. 382

Syllabus

<p>Insurance. Inventory. Oon&uot of agent. Estoppel.</p> <p>Where a merchant at the request of the agent of an Insurance company furnished him an inventory of his stock of goods and merchandise in his store before a policy was issued and this inventory contained the different articles of merchandise carried by the merchant in his store, and the gross value of each article, but did not specify numbers, quantities, or prices and the agent said it was all right and issued him a policy on the ' same, it was too late, after the company had issued the policy, received the premium and plaintiff’s property was burned for the defendant company to say that the inventory in question ■was insufficient. It was estopped by its own conduct.</p>