Jefferson Cold Storage, Inc. v. Phoenix Insurance Co. of Hartford

REDMANN, Judge.

A “Comprehensive Dishonesty, Disappearance and Destruction” insurer, cast for a public warehouseman’s loss, by this appeal argues that the policy excludes the loss because proof of the loss is “dependent upon an inventory computation.” We affirm.

Frozen shrimp were brought to plaintiff in many-case lots of 50-pound cases. (The loss occurred in four lots of 200, 328, 345 and 66 cases.) Each lot was assigned a lot number when received, and the number was stencilled on individual cases in the lot. The customer knew the lot number from the time of storage, and would call for its…