American Powder Co. v. Commonwealth Insurance

The above-entitled action, and twenty others instituted in this and other courts, now duly consolidated herewith, *159were brought in plaintiff’s name, as the assured under various policies of insurance, to recover thereon for loss occurring at plaintiff’s plant at Maynard, Mass., on February 7, 1931. At the time plaintiff was engaged in the production of nitrocellulose, a constituent of quick-drying lacquers. As part of its process it used an apparatus known as a digester, which was a cylindrical vessel about eight and one-half feet in diameter and twelve feet high, which, with its conical top…