Legal Opinion

Murray Oil Products, Inc. v. Royal Exchange Assurance Co.

New York Court of Appeals

Decided February 22, 1968PublishedCited by 30 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtKeating, J.

On November 20, 1963, the plaintiff delivered 300,600 pounds of vegetable oil to the Harbor Tank Storage Co. for storage in its tanks. The following month the storage *444company became insolvent and was found to have insufficient oil in its possession to return all the oil the plaintiff had deposited. As a result, the plaintiff lost 70,000 pounds of oil, the value of which it now seeks to recover from Harbor Tank’s insurance carrier.

An insurance policy had been issued by the defendant to Harbor Tank on December 31, 1961, and renewed the following year. It covered the storage company against ‘ ‘…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Employers Casualty Company v. HolmCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1965

3Cited by30 opinions

  1. American Home Products Corp. v. Liberty Mutual InsuranceDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1983
  2. A. Meyers & Sons Corp. v. Zurich American Insurance GroupNew York Court of Appeals · 1989
  3. Hamburg v. American Ref-Fuel Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2001
  4. J.A. Brundage Plumbing & Roto-Rooter, Inc. v. Massachusetts Bay InsuranceDistrict Court, W.D. New York · 1993
  5. Bretton v. Mutual of Omaha InsuranceAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1985

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