Monk v. Penn Township Mutual Fire Insurance

Citations

• 27 Pa. Super. 449
• 1905 Pa. Super. LEXIS 81

Syllabus

<p>Insurance — Fire insurance — Additional insurance — Notice.</p> <p>Where the by-laws of an insurance company require additional insurance to be noted on the policy, and a member after taking out additional insurance, informs the secretary of this fact in a chance conversation on a street car, and the secretary tells him to bring his policy to the office of the company to have the additional insurance noted, and the member neglects to do .this, he cannnot thereafter recover from the company for a loss of property covered by the policy although he may have paid assessments after his conversation with the secretary.</p>