Simond v. Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Hosea W. Weuls, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1920.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Holdom
delivered the opinion of the court.
Plaintiff was insured in the defendant company under a policy colloquially designated in insurance circles as a “personal effects floating policy” to an amount limited to $500.
Plaintiff while traveling in the State of New York on a Pullman sleeping car placed a three-diamond ring which she removed from her finger at about 9 o’clock in the morning of October 13, 1917, upon the window ledge in the section which she was occupying during the trip. At this time the train stopped in the station at Buffalo, and plaintiff, leaving her…
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