Smith v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins.

ABRUZZO, District Judge.

The plaintiff has brought this action for damages from the defendant on the ground that the defendant is withholding and converted to its own use without right all of the business of the plaintiff which consists of an insurance agency.

This agency carried on in the main a baggage insurance business. In connection with the agency, Lewis C. Smith, deceased, husband of the executrix bringing this suit, made agreements with railroad ticket agencies, travel agencies, steamship and bus agencies. Lewis Smith in his lifetime made an agreement with the defendant, Saint Paul Fire…