Sam Hootstein & Sons, Inc. v. Hartford Fire Insurance

In this action to recover damages for the loss of goods taken (by a man posing as a driver for the plaintiff’s trucking contractor) from the loading platform where they had been placed awaiting the arrival of the contractor, the trial judge was right in refusing to rule that such recovery was barred by either exclusion 8 or 9 of the insurance policy. Those exclusions, interpreted in accordance with well settled canons of construction (see Palmer v. Pawtucket Mut. Ins. Co. 352 Mass. 304, 306 [1967], and cases cited; Bulyga v. Underwriters at Lloyd’s, London, 1 Mass. App. Ct. 359, 363 [1973],…