Commercial Casualty Ins. v. Lloyd

GARDNER, Chief Justice.

The suit is upon a policy commonly known as “burglary insurance”. Plaintiff insists in his complaint and proof that his iron safe situated in the office of his bakery business in Anniston, Alabama, was on the morning of April 17, 1938, burglarized, resulting in the loss of money and securities. There was verdict and judgment for $880 from which the defendant company prosecutes this appeal.

The policy provided in the insuring and covering clause as follows: “Indemnity for loss — 1. To indemnify the Assured for loss by burglary, which shall mean the felonious abstraction…