Brown v. Sloan's Moving & Storage Company

VAN OSDOL, Commissioner.

Plaintiffs, Wilbur G. and Patricia Parker Brown, instituted this action to recover $19,665.20 alleged to have been the value of personalty stored by them in the warehouse of defendant, Sloan’s Moving & Storage Company, which warehouse, situate at 1167-69 Hodiamont Avenue in St. Louis, was destroyed by fire January 15, 1951. At the conclusion of plaintiffs’ case' the trial court directed a verdict and en tered judgment for defendant. Plaintiffs have appealed.

In this case wherein plaintiffs-depositors’ property was destroyed by fire while stored in…