Shattuck & Jones, Inc. v. Travelers Indemnity Co.

The plaintiff brings this action of contract upon a policy of burglary insurance issued by the defendant, to recover for a loss sustained during the night of February 25, 1947, by the breaking into its building on Atlantic Avenue in Boston and the stealing therein of a large quantity of fish. At the trial the judge directed a verdict for the defendant, and the plaintiff excepted.

By the policy the defendant insured the plaintiff against loss by larceny from the premises “by any person or persons making felonious entry into the premises by actual force and violence when the premises are not…