Case ID: mich_123/html/0684-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

PEAKE v. FULLER.
    Mutual Insurance — Insolvency op Company —Receiver’s Assessment-Members’ Liability — Limitations.
    . Under 2 Comp. Laws 1897, § 7282, providing that the receiver of an insolvent mutual fire-insurance company shall proceed at once to assess upon the members and persons insured a sum sufficient to pay all the losses of the company together with the expenses of the receivership, the statute of limitations does not begin to run against the members’ liability until the assessment is made.
    Error to Ionia; Davis, J.
    Submitted April 10, 1900.
    Decided April 24, 1900.
    
      Assumpsit by J. Warren Peake, receiver of the Ionia, Eaton & Barry Farmers’ Mutual Fire-Insurance Company, against George S. Fuller, to recover an assessment on a policy. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant brings error.
    Affirmed.
    
      Clement Smith, for appellant.
    
      George E. Nichols, for appellee.
   Per Curiam.

The facts in this case are like the facts in Peake v. Yule, ante, 675 (82 N. W. 514), and that case is controlling of the present, except one other question is here raised. It is claimed by the defendant that the action is barred by the statute of limitations. We think not.' That question is controlled by the case of Wardle v. Hudson, 96 Mich. 432 (55 N. W. 992). The statute did not begin to run until the time the assessment was made. See Smith v. Bell, 107 Pa. St. 352.

The judgment must be affirmed.