Haugen v. First National Bank of Poulsbo

The plaintiff, Haugen, seeks recovery of damages from the defendant bank for losses to himself and others by the burglarizing of its safety deposit vault and the boxes therein, claimed to have been the result of'the defendant’s neglect to properly guard its vault. The plaintiff sets up one cause of action for such loss occurring directly to himself, and eight additional causes of action for such loss occurring to others who have assigned their claims against the defendant to him; all of such losses having been the result of the same burglary. A trial in the superior court for Kitsap county,…