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  "id": 2916784,
  "name": "Josie Markus, alias Jessie Markus, Appellee, v. Aetna Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Markus v. Aetna Insurance",
  "decision_date": "1918-03-05",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 23,632",
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
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    "parties": [
      "Josie Markus, alias Jessie Markus, Appellee, v. Aetna Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut, Appellant."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Holdom\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\n5. Witnesses, \u00a7 278 \u2014what is not proper impeachment. Evidence of matter immaterial to an issue is not competent as impeaching proof.",
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        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Holdom"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Charles B. Obermeyer, for appellant.",
      "Gurdon Williams, for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "Josie Markus, alias Jessie Markus, Appellee, v. Aetna Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut, Appellant.\nGen. No. 23,632. (Not to be reported in full.)\nAppeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. William N. Gemmill, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the October term, 1917.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed March 5, 1918.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Josie Markus, alias Jessie Markus, plaintiff, against Aetna Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut, defendant, on a fire insurance policy in the sum of $2,000. From a judgment for plaintiff for $1,500, defendant appeals.\nThe court gave orally the following instruction:\n\u201cNow I think it is the law of this State that if one purports to act as the agent of an insurance company and received application for insurance and accepts the premium upon such insurance, goes to the company and secures the policy of insurance and returns the policy to the assured, and does everything that is necessary to do to accomplish the issuance of the insurance, I think it is the law of this State that the insured in this case, the plaintiff, would have the right to assume that this representative was the proper representative with proper authority to do whatever he did do in the issuance of the policy, whatever was necessary in the issuance of that policy and that to the extent of bringing knowledge of the conditions of the property he was the representative of the defendant, and if yon believe from the evidence in this case that the representative of the plaintiff, that is the plaintiff\u2019s husband, fully and fairly stated to this representative the condition of the title to that property, the condition of the property itself, the character of the property, and that he wilfully concealed nothing that the defendant ought to know with respect to the property, then I think the defendant is not in a position here, gentlemen, to say that it has been deceived or misled by the plaintiff in this case, who is bound by the acts of its representative.\u201d\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Insurance, \u00a7 285 \u2014when insurer charged with notice of alterations in building. A provision in a fire insurance policy granting permission for alterations and repairs to complete a building thereon is in itself ample to charge insurer with notice of the fact that the building is in process of being changed or altered.\n2. Insurance, \u00a7 71*\u2014who has insurable interest in building. One who is in possession of land sold upon contract upon which a burned building owned by her is located has an insurable interest in the building.\n3. Municipal Court or Chicago, \u00a7 17*\u2014propriety of oral instruct tions. The giving of oral instructions is permissible in the Municipal Court of Chicago.\n4. Instructions, \u00a7 46*\u2014when province of jury not invaded. In an action on a fire insurance policy, an instruction o,n the binding effect upon defendant of the acts of a person purporting to act as agent in the procurance of insurance as an agent, held not to invade the province of the jury.\nCharles B. Obermeyer, for appellant.\nGurdon Williams, for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vola. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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  "file_name": "0491-01",
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