Dachis v. Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society, Ltd.

The above-entitled actions were brought to recover on policies of fire insurance.

On June 27, 1925, a fire occurred in the Leipzig Fur Dressing Company’s factory at East Norwalk, Conn. The plaintiffs claim they sustained losses because certain skins owned by them were destroyed or damaged. To prove a case they relied to a great extent on the testimony of Isaac Schaffer, an interested witness. His testimony was contradicted in several very material and important instances by at least five disinterested witnesses.

Although the records in these cases do not contain some very important testimony…