Bradley v. Retailers Fire Insurance

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Marshall, J.:

This is an action commenced in 1926 to recover on a policy of insurance issued by the defendant to indemnify the plaintiff against loss by theft of a motor truck owned by him. Judgment was rendered in favor of the defendant, and the plaintiff appeals.

The evidence disclosed that early in 1926 the plaintiff bought a secondhand motor truck from Walter Anderson, who was not a regular dealer engaged in the barter or sale of such vehicles; that he did not give any bill of sale of the motor truck to the plaintiff; that section 8-117 (repealed in…