Kaiser v. Insurance Co. of North America

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Sadler,

Plaintiff is a jobber of woolen goods in the City of Philadelphia. He claimed to have sold to a brother, residing in New York, certain merchandise for $24,6Í2. After securing a policy of insurance, covering loss by fire, Kaiser consigned the material to him and employed Weisberg’s trucking firm to transport it. Directions were given the latter to call at his store for loading, and, in pursuance of this request, a motor was brought there. In the meantime, one Jackson, who had a record as a receiver of stolen goods, engaged a second firm, — the Probinskys, — to…