J. J. Lawson, Doing Business Under the Name of Industrial Manufacturing Company v. American Motorists Insurance Corporation

TUTTLE, Circuit Judge.

The question on this appeal is whether the trial court properly granted a summary judgment to the defendant, or whether there was any genuine issue of fact presented by the pleadings and the motion for summary judgment, together with supporting affidavits and exhibits.

The complaint alleged in substance as follows: Defendant issued a “comprehensive dishonesty, disappearance, and destruction” policy for a valuable consideration to the Industrial Manufacturing Company, a corporation, whose rights under such policy were assigned by operation of law to its then sole…