Only One Case Brought: In" surance Sui Dismissed Only one case was brought before Judge Purdy sitting at the annual term of the United States Court for China a€ Hankow:—the Continental Bank of Ching, v, the United States Fire Insurance Company, represent"
China by the' American Asiatic Underwriters.
Messrs Bailey & Perry represents the plaintiffs and Me. GP, Franklin of "Mess. Flem) Franklin & Allmany went to appear for the defend am 'The exse concerned a cargo of paper which vas Lodge! in a adown. find burned, meanwhile being pledge ced to the hank. The fire took place in June, 1926, under circumstances claimed' by the insurance company to have been suspicious.
The defence raised by the me surance company to the plaintiff's claim for damages was that the suit had not been filed within three months after the claim bad been registered as the policy covering the matter provided.
The plaintiff admitted that the had not been filed within. the thre months' stipulated time but sought to avoid that clause of the policy on the grounds that they had requested arbitration within three Judge Purdy held that a request for arbitration did not fulfil the policy requirements for suit within. three months, and dismissed the plaintiffs case,
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