Schoenfeld v. Royal Indemnity Co.

Citations

• 76 Pa. Super. 299
• 1921 Pa. Super. LEXIS 140

Syllabus

<p>Burglary insurance — Forcible entry — Insurance contract — Interpretation — Burden of proof.</p> <p>A policy of insurance against burglary, expressly limited to such losses as may be caused by one making a forcible entry or exit evidenced by visible marks upon the premises, does not cover a loss by theft, larceny or mysterious disappearance where there is no evidence of any unlawful entry.</p> <p>Plaintiff must sustain the burden of showing burglary by some evidence of felonious entry, or evidence from which such entry might be reasonably inferred, and where he failed to produce any evidence of that nature, judgment was properly entered for the defendant non obstante veredicto.</p>