This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...included in the policy, it is not unreason able to suppose that he may be guilty of the like wrongs in regard to the other subjects included therein. He may be so guilty, and the insurer may have no means of proving such guilt. He may himself have been the author of the burning of which he complains, or he may have obtained the insurance for the very purpose of obtaining money by committing fraud and perjury in regard to one or more of the subjects in sured. He was capable of either of these crimes, as he was capable of the crime which was proved upon him. We therefore think the construction contended for by the counsel for the defendants is a reasonable one, and that it is the true one, especially as it accords with the literal terms of the provision in question. The learned counsel for the plaintiff, in his argu ment in this case, referred to a great many decisions of other States and countries, for the purpose of sustain ing his views of the case, and especially of the ques-tion we are now considering. He referred to no decision of this court, because there is none on the question; and he admitted that he could find no decision of any other court upon the very question in issue; Term. which is certainly very strong negative evidence that no such decision exists. We have referred to all these M, J, _)re decisions, or at least all of them, which, from the state-V3, -I_ g;fe& ment of the learned counsel in regard to them, seemed Ins. Co. to be material to be referred to by us; and none of them seem to be in conflict with the views we have expressed. If any of them be so, we do not think they expound the law correctly, and we are therefore unwilling to be guided by them. The learned counsel argues, that though the..