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3 Grant 77

Fogle v. Lycoming Mutual Ins.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided October 25, 1860

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1860-10-25

Covenant on a policy of insurance issued by defendants to C. Fogle, and his successors in office, on a frame church in tbe borough of Brookville, Jefferson Co., Penna., for five years from the 5th of November,' 1851. The church was destroyed by fire on the 24th of May, 1856, within five years.

Decided 1860-10-25

¶1The opinion was delivered

Per curiam.

¶2The errors assigned are not sustained. We perceive nothing wrong or deficient in the charge of the court to the jury. There is nothing in'the charter that prevents such a by-law as No. 10 from making part of the contract of insurance ; and no mere indulgence of breaches of it that has not become customary can amount to a change of its express tenor. The law relating to the conditions for ■ forfeiting executed es-tates in land, is not a ruling analogy for conditions in avoidance of such an executory contract as this. We think the notice of the assessment of loss, to which the plaintiff ought to have contributed, was properly proved. The original notice was not produced; but there appears to have been but one form for all such, notices, and the proof that one of that form was sent, s.eems to be a competent mode of proof. Such is always the practice in proving notices of notaries, on protesting bills and notes.

¶3Judgment affirmed and record remitted.

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