Anderson v. Murdoch Storage & Transfer Co.

Opinion by Mr.

Justice Bell,

Plaintiff brought an action in assumpsit for loss of household goods stored by defendants in the warehouse *214of the defendant corporation. Plaintiff not only proved the storage of his goods and the demand for their return, but also the destruction thereof by fire. The Court below entered a nonsuit which the Court en banc refused to remove.

The most important question is whether certain testimony of plaintiff’s wife, which induced the written contract, and concerned a provision covered therein, was admissible. The pertinent facts are as follows: The individual…