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James A. Cardinal, Respondent, v. Mercury Insurance Company, Appellant, and John Roshirt, Inc., et al., Respondents.
    (Argued November 22, 1934;
    decided December 7, 1934.)
    
      
      Charles B. Sullivan, Nelson R. Pirnie and Warner M. Bouck for appellant.
    
      Frank L. Wiswall and Carl O. Olsen for plaintiff-respondent, and John Roshirt, Inc., defendant-respondent.
   Judgment of the Appellate Division reversed and that of the Trial Term affirmed, with costs in this court and in the Appellate Division. Held, that there was, on the findings, no disclosure of the true interest of the assured and the policy was void and not subject to reformation. (Lasher v. St. Joseph Fire & Mar. Ins. Co., 86 N. Y. 423; Skinner v. Norman, 165 N. Y. 565, 571. See, also, Commercial Mut. Fire Ins. Co. v. Crawford, 219 App. Div. 110.) No opinion. (See 266 N. Y. 542.)

Concur: Pound, Ch. J., Lehman, O’Brien, Hubbs and Crouch, JJ. Dissenting: Crane, J. Not sitting: Loughran, J.