People's Insurance v. Paddon

At the time in question, and for several years prior thereto, Stephen Paddon & Co., the plaintiffs below, were and had been dealers in the city of Chicago, in sal-soda and other chemicals. There were two warehouses in which they were accustomed to keep their merchandise — one being the Empire Bonded Warehouse, and the other the Empire Free Warehouse, as they were called, but they were adjoining buildings. Stephen Paddon himself always attended to the matter of procuring insurance on the goods of his firm. There was during most of said time a street insurance broker of the name of Miller, with…