OFFICE APPLIANCE TRADES ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND v. ROYLANCE.

(1940) 67 Ll.L.Rep. 86

KING'S BENCH DIVISION.

Before Mr. Justice Atkinson.

Insurance-Loss of expenses due to cancelment of exhibition-Policy issued to plaintiff business association by defendant underwriter covering "loss of expenses of the Association and its members . . . in the event of the Business Efficiency Exhibition . . . being cancelled or postponed . . . through a general parliamentary election, fire, explosion and/or any physical happening to the buildings and/or contents thereof, including any causes not within control of the assured, but which in the opinion of the executive committee of the assured is sufficient ground for cancelling or postponing the exhibition"-"Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein this policy does not cover loss or damage directly or indirectly occasioned by, happening through or in consequence of war . . ." -Meeting of committee prior to outbreak of war deciding that "owing to the undoubted disturbance in business due to the fear of war, as well as to the loss of staff owing to mobilisation, it would be unwise to hold the exhibition"-Claim under policy.