Lipman Bros. v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co.

On exceptions by the plaintiff to the rejection of the report of a referee. The plaintiff was a processor and dealer in poultry, to wit, chickens. It operated a processing plant in Bangor in which it had about fifty employees. At this plant it received live chickens, killed and dressed the same. Save for minor local sales, it shipped the dressed poultry to New York. The defendant issued to and covered the plaintiff by a comprehensive Dishonesty, Disappearance and Destruction Policy, so-called, which was in force during all times material to the claim here in question. By said policy the…