Maryland Casualty Co. v. Wolff

This suit, in trover, instituted in 1940, isffounded upon assistance given by the defendant, Wolff, the keeper of a grill or restaurant, in what proved to be a theft of the funds of the Fidelity and Guaranty Fire Corporation by one of its employees. The Maryland Casualty Company, the plaintiff, had, in compliance with its bond issued to the Fidelity Corporation, paid the loss and received an assignment of claims over. Appealing from a judgment for the defendant, after a trial before the court without a jury, that plaintiff disputes the correctness of instructions or declarations of law…