Gordon v. Ætna Indemnity Co. of Hartford
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York
Appeal from Municipal Court, Borough of Manhattan, Second District. Action by Morris Gordon against the ¿Etna Indemnity Company of Hartford, Conn. Prom a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
1Per curiam
The action was brought upon a burglary insurance policy for the loss of a diamond locket belonging to the plaintiff’s wife. The facts, briefly stated, are that in the morning of the day on which the loss occurred Mrs. Gordon states that she placed the locket under a pillow in her bedroom on an upper floor of the dwelling house, which was occupied solely by plaintiff’s family and two servants; that she then went downstairs, and did not have occasion to return to the upper floor again during the entire day; that when she was about to retire she looked under the pillow and found the locket…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Schindler v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1908
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