McDuff v. General Accident Fire & Life Assurance Corp.

This is an action of assumpsit to recover the value of two diamond rings alleged to have been stolen from pi aintiff’s house. After trial in the Superior Court the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff. Defendant’s motion for a new trial was denied by the trial justice, and the case is now before this court on defendant’s exceptions.

It appears in the record that the defendant issued a policy agreeing to indemnify the plaintiff for direct loss by burglary, theft or larceny of certain personal property, including jewelry belonging to his wife, occasioned by its felonious abstraction from…