Murray v. Continental Insurance

The defendant issued to the plaintiff, a dealer in wool remnants maintaining an office and warehouse in Canton, a policy insuring his stock in trade against loss from sprinkler leakage. There was evidence that a portion of the roof of the plaintiff’s warehouse was blown off by a hurricane and windstorm which visited Canton in the late afternoon of September 21, 1938, and that, as a result, the automatic sprinkler system was broken and the plaintiff’s stock was damaged by the escaping water. On the other hand, there was testimony that the break in the system had occurred an hour before the…