Carva Food Corporation v. Dawley
Supreme Court of Virginia
The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtSpratley, J.
On April 13, 1959, Carva Food Corporation, hereinafter referred to as Carva, instituted this proceeding by filing a motion for judgment against William B. Dawley, individually, and trading as William B. Dawley and Company, to recover $26,000.00 for damages alleged to have been sustained by it because of Dawley’s failure to procure for it a policy of insurance on its stock of groceries covering loss caused by any accidental discharge of water from its sprinkler system installed in its warehouse in Norfolk, Virginia.
Carva alleged in its motion that in 1942, it had purchased a sprinkler leakage…
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