Insurance Companies Held Not Liable for Loss: Test Case of Wide Importance London, Dec. 19.
After a heaving last Justice Rowlett, Court, gave judgment for the defendants vis, the insurance companies, in the Smyrna fire case, in which' the plaintiffs asked for the recovery of insurances on property destroyed by fire, the issue being whether the fire was accidental or whether it came within th: exceptions of the fire policies. The judgment holds that the fire was an act of war which excluded from the in-
The decision will be a big blow to Iniany British traders, ruined by the fire, for the action was treated as test case for claims amounting to nearly £20,000,000 under insurance policies with British and other companies—Reuter.
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