Concordia Lutheran Evangelical Church v. United States Casualty Co.

CAYTON, Chief Judge.

Loitering about the Concordia Lutheran Church one Sunday was a man later identified as Billy Bateman. When the church president asked him what he wanted, he said he was waiting for someone, and the president invited him to wait inside the church. Later, the church sexton saw him using a phone in a private office and had a similar conversation with him. It later developed that the man had made his way to the pastor’s study, which though equipped with a lock had been left unlocked. He rifled the pastor’s desk, which had also been left unlocked. In the desk was a checkbook…