Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Abbott

PARKER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment for plaintiff entered on the pleadings in a suit to recover under a safe deposit liability policy. Plaintiff had recovered judgment in a Maryland state court against the Takoma Park Bank for the sum of $50,-500, with interest and costs, for loss of $50,000 in gold certificates and $500 in other funds from a safety deposit box which he had rented from that bank. The judgment was affirmed by the Court of Appeals of Maryland. Takoma Park Bank v. Abbott, 179 Md. 249, 19 A.2d 169, certiorari denied 314 U.S. 672, 62 S.Ct. 134, 86 L.Ed. -. The…