Schlussel v. Commercial Casualty Insurance

Plaintiff in these two cases is a resident of Detroit, engaged in the real estate business. His home is a two-story brick residence at 533 Ferry avenue east. On the evening of May 5, 1922, while he and his family were away from home, attending a charity bazaar, it was broken into and entered by burglars who stole between $5,000 and $6,000 worth of property, consisting largely of jewelry, taking with them a safe which was kept in the hall upstairs and contained most of the property stolen. When the family returned shortly before midnight they found burglars had entered by cutting the glass in…