GREAT CENTRAL INSURANCE COMPANY v. Cook

CLAUDE WILLIAMS, Justice.

Alleging that on the 17th day of March, 1966 his service station had been burglarized, causing him to lose property valued at $2,500, M. D. Cook brought this action against Great Central Insurance Company to recover for such burglary loss pursuant to the terms of an insurance policy issued by defendant and which was in full force and effect at the time of such loss. The insurance company answered with a special plea that its policy defined burglary as meaning the felonious abstraction of insured property from within the business premises by a person making felonious…