Cole v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co.

Plaintiff, proprietor o-f a jewelry store in Atlantic, alleges in both counts of his petition two trays of rings were stolen from his safe. Count I seeks recovery under terms of a policy issued by defendant insuring plaintiff against loss by robbery as- defined in the policy. Also covered by the policy was loss by burglary as therein defined.

Testimony of plaintiff and his clerk Miss Gearhart as to how the loss occurred is that when they were alone in the store about noon on November 15, 1945, two well-dressed men and a woman, unknown to them, came to the store; the woman asked to look at…