Shuman v. Juniata Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance

Citations

• 206 Pa. 417
• 55 A. 1069
• 1903 Pa. LEXIS 735

Syllabus

<p>Insurance — Mutual fire insurance — Assessments—Payment—Notice.</p> <p>Where a mutual fire insurance company sends to a member a notice in the form of a bill to pay an assessment, and the notice also states that the treasurer of the company will be at certain places at dates named, to receive the assessments, and a by-law of the company provides that assessments must be paid within thirty days from the date of the notice, a member cannot claim that he is entitled to thirty days from the date when the treasurer, was to be at a place in the member’s neighborhood. He must pay within thirty days of the date of the notice.</p> <p>In an action to recover for a loss sustained by a fire after the expiration of the notice for payment of such assessment, plaintiff cannot offer in evidence the next subsequent notice of assessment which was different in form from the prior one. Such notice is not competent evidence that the former one was insufficient.</p>