Plate Glass Underwriters' Mutual Insurance v. Ridgewood Realty Co.

Defendant is a corporation owning a large business building in Kansas City, which it had leased to the F. P. Burnap Stationery and Printing Company.. Plaintiff is a plate glass insurance company in which the Printing Company had a policy insuring it against loss or damage, by breakage of plate glass covered by the policy, from accidental causes beyond insured’s control.

While said policy was in force, a windstorm blew out the plate glass front of the ground floor of said building, and insured called upon plaintiff to replace it. The insurance company, within twenty-four hours after the glass…