The vaudeville theatre, building, operation, management (1918)

Record Details:

Title:
The vaudeville theatre, building, operation, management
Date:
1918
Publisher:
New York : Gotham press, inc.
Volume:
The vaudeville theatre, building, operation, management
Leaf #:
000291
Language:
English
Collection:
Theatre and Vaudeville and Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
University of California Libraries
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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the contract are, and is equally well posted as to just what the insurer has agreed to do. Do not assume that he will do thus and so; know it by clearly understanding just what he has agreed, in writing, to do. This subject is deemed of suf- ficient importance to justify repetition and the citing of a case or two. In a certain fire not only the property of the theatre was destroyed, but as well a grand piano and an expensive set of furniture which had been borrowed as "props" and for which the theatre was responsible. The insurance company was not liable, merely because the in- sured had not required that his policy should cover such losses. He was only protected against destruction of property of the theatre. An electrician, repairing a sign on the front of a theatre, dropped molten solder upon a lady passing below. Public liability insurance held by the theatre did not protect it in this case, because the policy provided that it cov- ered losses only in case of negligence on the part of employees of the theatre, whereas, the electrician in this instance was the employee of a sign company, who had the sign on lease to the theatre and was maintaining it in accord- ance with a contract. Yet the court held that the theatre was responsible for the actions of 287