Perry v. Southern Surety Co.
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 153, Oct. T., 1921, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 1, Pbila. Co., Sept. T., 1919, No. 172, for plaintiff, in the case of Laura Jayne Perry y. Southern Surety Company, a corporation. Assumpsit on a policy of insurance to recover for loss of ring alleged to have been stolen. Before Patterson, J., without a jury. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case.
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Appeal, No. 153, Oct. T., 1921, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 1, Pbila. Co., Sept. T., 1919, No. 172, for plaintiff, in the case of Laura Jayne Perry y. Southern Surety Company, a corporation. Assumpsit on a policy of insurance to recover for loss of ring alleged to have been stolen. Before Patterson, J., without a jury. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case. The court found in favor of the plaintiff, and entered judgment thereon for the value of the ring, in the sum of §500. Defendant appealed. Errors assigned were refusing to direct judgment for defendant, and…
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Porter, J.,
This action was upon a policy of insurance against loss of property by burglary, larceny or theft, committed by any person or persons, from within the interior of the premises of the plaintiff. The property, for the loss of which the action was brought, consisted of a gold ring with a setting of three pearls surrounded by diamonds. Evidence was introduced by the plaintiff to show the circumstances connected with the disappearance of the ring, which excluded any other theory than that the property had been taken by theft. The particulars of the evidence need not here be…
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