Excerpt from Coast Review, Vol. 10: April, 1876 The process of reasoning by 'which the learned judge reached his conclusion on this point, we have held to be erroneous, viz That to make the representation important it must be material to the risk assumed that the representation that he was but 30 years old, when he was 37 or even 35, was material to the risk; and if the jury believed that he was of the greater age mentioned, their verdict must be for the defendants, and, therefore, he charged as requested. The charge should have been, that as Chew had represented himself to be but 30 years of age, if the jury found him then to be 35 years old, the false statement would avoid the policy, and they must find for the defendants, resting his direction upon the' falsity alone of the statement. 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.