Mechaber v. Omaha Indemnity Co.

Plaintiff, a dealer engaged in buying and selling Torah scrolls, arranged to transport two such scrolls in November, 1970 from St. Louis to New York for sale by him, on consignment, for the account of his brother, the owner of the scrolls from whom he had received them in Israel the previous May. He brought the scrolls to the airport in St. Louis, wrapped in paper and tied with string where he checked them, for carriage, with the airline company on whose plane he took flight to New York. At the St. Louis airport he procured from defendant two insurance policies of $3,000 each on his 1 ‘…