Miller v. Manhattan Fire Marine Ins. Co.

This action was brought to recover on an insurance policy issued to the plaintiff by the defendant by the terms of which the defendant insured the plaintiff against a “wrongful conversion, embezzlement or secretion” of an automobile upon which the plaintiff held a chattel mortgage. The case was tried to the court, who on findings rendered a judgment in favor of the defendant. The plaintiff appeals.

The court in substance found that O. A. Parsons on July 7, 1928, executed and delivered to the plaintiff at Salt Lake City, Utah, a chattel mortgage on an automobile to secure “his indorsement” on a…