Excerpt from In the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia: John Campbell and Malcolm Campbell, Vs. The Aetna Insurance Company The question identical in all respects with that now under our consideration, and arising out of circumstances, precisely the same, appears first to have come before the Supreme Court of Massachusetts in Jackson v. The Massachusetts Mutual Fire Insurance Company, in 23 Pick. 418, and was there disposed of very briefly in the judgment of Dewy, C. J. He says that an insurance which shall operate to avoid the policy of the defendants as a violation of its rule, must be a valid and legal policy, and effectual and binding upon the as surers: here it was wholly nugatory, and of no effect, because notice of the first was not given to the last oflice. Stacey v. Franklin Fire Insurance Company, 2 Watts. Sergt. 507, ap pears to be a similar decision to that first cited, but I have not been fortunate enough to see the case itself. The same question - the same at least as I take it in principle - came before the Supreme Court of the United States in Carpenter v. The Providence Washington Insurance Company, 16 Peters, 495, and reported also in 14 Curtis, 386. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.