Mendelsohn v. Automobile Insurance

The defendant issued to the plaintiff a policy of insurance against loss or damage due to certain stated perils on shipments of goods and merchandise while loaded for shipment or in transit on a described automobile truck. The plaintiff sent the truck, with a load of unupholstered parlor suite frames from Braintree in this Commonwealth to Brooklyn, New York. The load was bulky and high and while the truck was on the road to New York the top of the load came in contact with an overhead bridge, causing damage to the goods- to the extent of $200. No part of the truck itself came in contact with…