Patrons Mutual Fire Insurance v. Coble

Citations

• 20 Pa. Super. 533
• 1902 Pa. Super. LEXIS 272

Syllabus

<p>Insurance — Mutual fire insurance — Assessments—Renewal of policy.</p> <p>Where the by-laws of a mutual fire insurance company provide that the insurance shall cease if an assessment is not paid within thirty days after demand, and it appears that after the expiration of thirty days from the demand upon a member for an assessment the policy of the member expired, and the company issued to him a renewal policy having the same number as the old policy, and practically covering the same property, but without having collected the assessment on the first policy, and thereafter certain of the property insured is destroyed by fire, the insured cannot, in an action to recover the assessment, set off the loss sustained by the fire.</p>