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Lim Cuan Sy Vs. Northern Assurance Co. 055 Phil 248

LIM CUAN SY, plaintiff-appellee, vs. THE NORTHERN ASSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 31952 | 1930-11-13

D E C I S I O N


STREET, J.:

This action was instituted in the Court of First Instance of the City of Manila, on May 5, 1927, by Lim Cuan Sy, for the purpose of recovering from the Northern Assurance Company, Limited, the sum of P10,000, upon a policy of insurance issued through its Manila agency upon a stock of textiles stored in a bodega located at No. 62, Calle Urbiztondo, San Nicolas, Manila, which goods, it was alleged in the complaint, had been destroyed by fire on December 28, 1926. In its answer the defendant company set up a general denial and several special defenses directed to the following points: false representation by the...