The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-02 00:00:00

DISPUTED LIFE POLICIES.

" A trial of considerable interest to Life Assurance Offices and the
Public was concluded yesterday in the Court of Exchequer. The
Eagle Company held a policy for an assurance of 5391. in the Albion
Compdny as security for an advance, the payment of which policy
Was now disputed by the Albion, on the ground that at the time it
Was effected the fact of the assured party having been a man of in-
temperate habits was concealed from the office. The chief evidence
turns lamon the question as to the degree of intemperance that had
been exhibited, and the result was, that a verdict was given against
the reslsting office, not only for the amount of the policy, but also for
401. interest from the date when it became due. The circumstance
of the &ellen being brought by one office against another presents a
striking illustration of the uncertainty which may attach to all po-
licies Under the present system, and shows that the only :node by
Which absolute security can be obtained by the public must lie in the
general adoptidn by Assurance Offices of the plan of prote'l.ing them-
selves in every case by due inquiries before the granting • f each po-
licy, and of afterwards assuming the full responsibility of the com-
pleteness of such inquiries by holding themselves precluded from
raising. any future question. In the present case two offices are
found to be diametrically opposed in their opinions as to what can
properly invalidate a claim, and yet the public are expected to be
able to.guare themselves against such contingences. Similar cases
have occurred before, and even if they were snore rare, they would
seriously- injure the progress of life assurance. The very principle
Upon which the business is founded is the removal of uncertainty,
and whenever that principle is counteracte I in the slightest degree,
the People who would be the first to resort to its advantages are the
first to be deterred."—Times, July 11, 1850.
T LONDON INDISPUTABLE LIFE
POLICY COMPANY
No. 72, LOMBARD-STREET, LONDON.
TRUSTEES.
Cazpbellitenton,Esq., M.P. 1 Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P.
Richard Malins, Esq., Q.C. 1 James Fuller Madox, Esq.
William Wilberforce, Esq.
DIRECTORS.
Robert Henry Forman, Esq.
John llamilton, Esq.
fames Fuller Madox, Esq.
John Matthews, Esq.
C. Octavius Parnell, Esq.
AUDITORS.
IJa•vies Turner, Esq.
David Henry Stone, Esq.'

William Adams, Esq.
John Atkins, Esq.
Henry Augustus Bevan, Esq.
Thompson Bramwell, Esq.
John bangerfield, Esq.

Clorge Cumming, Esq.
Wllllarn D. Starling. Esq.

SECRETARY' —David Alison, Esq.
BANKERS— Messrs. Spooner, Attwoods, and Co.
PADDINGTON LOCAL BOAD.
24, Connaught-terrace, Edgeware -road.
Rev..Tameg Sherbold Boone, A.M., Stanhope-street, Hyde-park.
Captain Creed, Norfolk-crescent, Oxford-square.
Charles Pemberton, Esq., Eastbourne-terrace, Hyde-park, and Lin-
coln's Inn-flelds.
Thomas Jervis Amos, Esq., York-street, Portman-square.
George Y. Robson. Esq., Eastbourne-terrace, Hyde-park, it-d New-
square, Lincoln's Inn,

Secretary, Chas. llogilton, Esq.
The POLICIES of this. Company, being INDISPUTABLE, form
Family Provisions and Negotiable Securities, for their validity is not
uependent, as in the case of ordinary Policies, upon the import of
previous reports and other documents.
Owing to this important improvement in the practice of Life As-
surance, the progress of this Company has been rapid from the corn-
Mencement of its business, and is steadily advancing.
Copies of the Report of the last Annual Meeting will be fcrwarded,
on application, to Solicitors, to whom Commission is allowed.
ALEXANDER ROBERTSON, Manager.

THE BRITISH ASSURANCE COMPANY,
G 9, Loml,ard-streot.
Cumumkte—SYDNEY SMIRKE, Esq., A.R.A.
The rates for both Fire and Lire Insurance are as lew as can
With safety be taken.
The Premiums for Life Assurance made payable to suit the conTe-
xlence of the assured.
Prospectuses and all particulars may ba had at the Head Office,
or of any of the agents.

JOHN REDDISH, Manager,

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