UNITED STATES FIDELITY & GUARANTY CO. v. SLIFKIN

Civ. A. No. 9575.

200 F.Supp. 563 (1961)

UNITED STATES FIDELITY & GUARANTY CO., a corporation and Boston Insurance Company, a corporation, Plaintiffs, v. Irving T. SLIFKIN et al., Defendant.

United States District Court N. D. Alabama, S. D.

December 8, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Spain, Gillon & Young, Birmingham, Ala., for U. S. Fidelity & Guaranty Co.

Huie, Fernambucq & Stewart, Birmingham, Ala., for Boston Ins. Co.

Mudd, Baker & McDaniel and Schuyler A. Baker, Birmingham, Ala., for Irving T. Slifkin.

Bowers, Dixon, Dunn & McDowell, and Thomas F. McDowell, Birmingham, Ala., for Nathansohn-Lipschutz Co.

White, Bradley, Arant, All & Rose, and Frank H. McFadden and Charlotte R. Kieffer, Birmingham, Ala., for Burkley Corp.

Martin, Vogtle, Balch & Bingham, Birmingham, Ala., for Maurice Kornreich Co. and Georges Ullmann.


LYNNE, Chief Judge.

Irving T. Slifkin was a diamond merchant with his place of business in Birmingham, Alabama. In the course of his business he received from time to time diamonds on consignment accompanied by memoranda, describing the stones and reciting certain conditions of the deliveries. On May 18, 1959, on his premises, he was robbed at gunpoint of merchandise owned by him and of consigned diamonds owned by Nathansohn-Lipschutz Company, Burkley Corporation...

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