Violette v. Queen Insurance

Citations

• 96 Wash. 303
• 165 P. 65
• 1917 Wash. LEXIS 581

Syllabus

<p>Insurance — Cancellation oe Policy — Evidence — Sufficiency. The jury was warranted in finding that a fire insurance policy had not been cancelled, as the assured supposed had been done, where the agent testified that it had not been cancelled or requested to be cancelled, that it was another policy that had been cancelled, and the assured’s supposition arose from a misunderstanding.</p> <p>Samb^ — Property Insured — Description. A fire insurance policy on a stock of liquors “while contained in the two-story brick building,” situated on a certain lot, covers liquors kept in a one-story frame addition, physically attached to and communicating with the main brick building, which had always been used in connection with the saloon rooms and in which the principal part of the assured’s liquors were stored, the circumstances showing an intention to insure all of the liquors in stock; since the purpose of the description is merely identification in a general way, and the intention of the parties should govern.</p>