Package Freight Express v. New Hampshire Insurance Group

PRATTIS, J.,

FINDINGS OF FACT

1. Plaintiff, Package Freight Express, Inc., is a local package delivery service.

2. In 1972, plaintiff had a contract with the International Business Machines Corporation to deliver the latter’s typewriters to its customers.

3. Pursuant to its contract with IBM, Package Freight obtained an insurance policy from defendant, New Hampshire Insurance Group covering the value of the typewriters.

4. On January 12, 1972, while plaintiffs driver, Ambrose Palumbo, was making a delivery in Philadelphia, in a rented truck, the truck was stolen and the typewriters removed. Prior…