SCHENLEY DISTILLERS CORP. v. UNITED STATES FIRE INS. CO.

No. 386.

90 F.2d 633 (1937)

SCHENLEY DISTILLERS CORPORATION v. UNITED STATES FIRE INS. CO.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

June 14, 1937.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Root, Clark, Buckner & Ballantine, of New York City (John M. Harlan, Herman T. Stichman, and Richard E. Manning, all of New York City, of counsel), for appellant.

Chadbourne, Wallace, Parke & Whiteside, of New York City (George W. Whiteside, J. Arthur Leve, and Charles Pickett, all of New York City, of counsel), for appellee.

Before MANTON, L. HAND, and AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judges.


L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment entered upon a directed verdict in an action to recover under a policy of fire insurance for loss on certain liquors. The property insured belonged to the plaintiff and its subsidiaries and was stored in a number of warehouses in various places; the loss occurred on April 28, 1934, in the warehouses of James E. Pepper Co. Inc. at Lexington, Kentucky. The policy was one of twenty-four on the...

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