Legal Opinion
L. Lewitt & Co. v. Jewelers' Safety Fund Society
New York Court of Appeals
Decided November 20, 1928PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKellogg, J.
The plaintiff, a corporation engaged in the wholesale jewelry business, employed agents to exhibit and sell its jewelry to the retail trade. On May 8th, 1925, the defendant, a corporation engaged in writing burglary insurance, issued to the plaintiff a policy, expiring May 1st, 1926, insuring the plaintiff in the sum of $50,000.00 against loss through theft of any jewelry belonging to it, while the same was without the stores of the plaintiff, in the custody of its salesmen Jack Lewitt and William G. Grimes. On May 10th, 1925, a trunk of jewelry" belonging to the plaintiff, in the custody of…
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