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  "name": "W. F. GRUBBS et al. v. THE VIRGINIA FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY",
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      "W. F. GRUBBS et al. v. THE VIRGINIA FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY."
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        "text": "Clark, J.:\nThe learned counsel for the defendant properly and frankly concede that\u2019the principal defences are, (1) other insurance taken out by plaintiffs without notice and without defendant\u2019s consent thereto endorsed on the policy; (2) breach of warranty that a clerk should sleep in the store.\nAs to the first defence, consent to the additional insurance was endorsed on the policy by the attachment of the usual printed form used by the company for that purpose and signed by its agent, who had procured this insurance. The jury found, in response to the issue submitted to them, that -such additional insurance was made known to the defendant, and that the endorsement of its consent was authorized. It is sufficient for us to say that there was evidence sufficient to go to the jury tending to prove such finding. Though it was agreed that additional insurance should be made known to the company, and its consent thereto endorsed on the policy, it is not stated in the policy who, or that any particular officer or agent, should be authorized to accept notice of additional insurance and endorse defendant\u2019s consent thereto upon the policy, or that such consent should be endorsed at the home office or other particular place.\nAs to the second ground of defence, there was a statement in the application that a clerk then slept in the store, but there was no agreement or warranty that a clerk should continue to sleep in the store during the continuance of the policy. * There is evidence from defendant, that whether the Clerk slept in the store or not, it would not have affected the rate paid, and there is no evidence tending to show that the defendant was prejudiced by the failure of the clerk to sleep there. This was not a continuing warranty. Aurora Ins. Co. v. Eddy, 49 Ill., 106; Schmidt v. Ins. Co., 41 Ill., 295; Wood on Ins., \u00a7\u00a7167, 168, 171, 176, and cases there cited. A case exactly \u201con all fours\u201d is Frisbie v. Ins. Co., 27 Pa. St., 325; in which these same words in the application, \u201cclerk sleeps in store,\u201d were held to be merely a warranty in present\u00ed, and not that a clerk should continue to sleep there.\nThese are the principal contentions. There were other exceptions sufficiently numerous and ingenious, but we fail to see upon considering them that the defendant has been deprived of any substantial right or benefit which he was entitled to upon the trial.\nAffirmed.",
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        "author": "Clark, J.:"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Messrs. W. 0. Bowen (by brief) and R. 0. Burton, -for plaintiffs.",
      "Messrs. J. -W. Hinsdale and W. H. Day, for defendant."
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    "head_matter": "W. F. GRUBBS et al. v. THE VIRGINIA FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY.\nInsurance \u2014Agency.\n1. A statement in an application for insurance, that a clerk slept in the building insured, does not constitute a continuing warranty that the assured would require the clerk to continue to sleep in the building, and the fact that no person was sleeping therein when the fire occurred did not avoid the policy, especially in the absence of evidence that the risk was prejudiced thereby.\n2. A policy of insurance contained a stipulation that any additional insurance should be made known to the insurer and its consent endorsed thereon, otherwise the policy should be forfeited. Additional insurance was obtained with the knowledge of the soliciting agent of defendant, who had procured the original policy, and who endorsed the consent of his principal thereon by pasting the printed form used for such purpose by the company and which was printed by it, and the agent testified that he understood he had such authority: Held, there was evidence sufficient to go to ,, the jury on the issue as to the consent of 'the company to such additional insurance.\nCivil action, tried at Fall Term., 1890, of the Superior Court of NORTHAMPTON, Whitaker, J., presiding.\nThe plaintiff sued to recover the amount alleged to be due upon a policy of insurance issued to him by defendant, covering a house and a stock of merchandise therein at Seaboard, N. C.\nAmong other defences, the defendant set up that the policy had been forfeited by the plaintiff: 1st, because he had procured additional insurance with other companies on the same property without giving notice to defendant, and having its consent endorsed on the policy, as was stipulated therein should be done; and, 2d, that the plaintiff had contracted, at the time the policy was issued, that a clerk should sleep in the house, which it was insisted was a material fact, in that it made the risk less hazardous.\nIt was in evidence that Mr. Hay, of Raleigh, was the general agent of the defendant, with authority to appoint sub-agents, write and issue policies and collect premiums; that he had appointed one Joyner as agent \u2014 \u201ca soliciting agent\u201d \u2014 at Seaboard, with power and instructions to fill up applications and forward them to the general agent, who, if approved, would issue policies and send them to the assured through the sub or soliciting agent. Joyner procured the insurance for the plaintiffs, forwarded their application and upon receipt of the policy delivered it to plaintiffs and subsequently gave permission to the plaintiffs to take out additional insurance in other companies, and endorsed the consent of the defendant on the policy by pasting thereon the printed form for that purpose which had been furnished him by the company. Joyner also testified that he understood he had the authority to endorse the consent.\nThere was a statement in the application that a clerk then slept in the house, but there was no agreement'or warranty on the part of the plaintiffs that he should continue to sleep therein during the continuance of the policy.\nThere was judgment for plaintiffs, from which defendant appealed.\nMessrs. W. 0. Bowen (by brief) and R. 0. Burton, -for plaintiffs.\nMessrs. J. -W. Hinsdale and W. H. Day, for defendant."
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