Ferla v. Commercial Casualty Insurance

This is a bill in equity brought to reform a “Mercantile Open Stock Burglary Policy” issued by the respondent. The cause was heard by a justice of the superior court on bill, answer and proof. Thereafter the trial justice, in a decision from the bench, denied the prayer of the bill and a decree was entered in accordance with his decision. The complainant has duly appealed to this court from the entry of that decree.

It appears in evidence that in 1944 the complainant was the owner of a small jewelry manufacturing business in the city of Providence, in which business, according to his…