National Fire Insurance v. Slayden

Appellant, herein called insurer, issued to appellee, herein called insured, an insurance policy covering a certain described tractor machine, commonly called a bulldozer, insuring against direct loss or damage by theft.

After completing the construction of a pond and road on the lands rented by one Garner, insured’s employee drained the water from the bulldozer and left it on the edge of a field. The following day, which was a Sunday, one Conrad, who had subrented some of the land whereon had been built the pond and road, but who lived elsewhere in the neighborhood, went to the Garner…