Green's Hotel, Inc. v. Commercial Casualty Insurance

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Vandeubilt, C. J.

The plaintiff is appealing from a judgment of the Law Division of the Superior Court in favor of the defendant after trial without a jury. The appeal, taken to the Appellate Division of the Superior Court, has been certified by this court on its own motion.

The plaintiff corporation was engaged in the hotel business in West Orange, New Jersey, and it was insured by the defendant for losses resulting from burglary. On July 7, 1947, while the policy admittedly was in.force, burglars broke into the hotel and removed a saie and its…