Buffalo Insurance Co. v. United Parking Stations, Inc.

Frank T. Gallagher, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the municipal court of Minneapolis dismissing plaintiff’s action and from an order denying plaintiff’s motion for a new trial.

The case involves a subrogation suit brought by an insurer to recover damages paid to its insured as a result of a theft loss while his car was parked in defendant’s parking lot. Anthony Joseph Conroy, Jr., was insured under a family automobile policy with plaintiff, Buffalo Insurance Company. On August 7, 1963, Conroy’s Chevrolet was missing when he looked for it at about 7 p. m. at the parking lot of…