McQuade v. Springfield Safe Deposit & Trust Co.

This is an action by the executrix under the will of Andrew F. McQuade to recover damages for the loss of property deposited and kept by him in a safe deposit box in the bank of the defendant at Springfield. The declaration was in three counts alleging respectively breach of contract, negligence, and conversion. There was a general verdict for the plaintiff, and the case is here on the defendant’s exceptions to the denial of its requests for rulings, to the denial of its motion for a directed verdict in its favor, to a portion of the judge’s charge, and to the denial of its motion for a new…