Travelers Fire Insurance v. Brock & Co.

SHAW, J. pro tem.

This is an appeal by plaintiff from a judgment for defendant after trial by the court sitting without a jury. From the record it appears that plaintiff’s assignors, Joe and Mary Brandt, who were husband and wife, delivered to defendant, which was engaged in the jewelry-business, a diamond brooch from which a small stone had been lost, for the purpose of having it repaired by replacing the lost stone. Defendant, not having a diamond which would fit the brooch, delivered it to E. & I. Woorgaft & Company, a diamond dealer, which furnished a diamond and in turn delivered the…