Long v. Glidden Mutual Insurance Association

McCORMICK, Justice.

Defendants appeal judgment in a law action tried to the court allowing plaintiffs theft insurance recovery for loss of 400 bushels of soybeans. The sole issue is the sufficiency of evidence to support trial court’s finding the loss was caused by theft. We affirm.

Trial court findings of fact in a law action are binding on us if supported by substantial evidence. We view the evidence in its most favorable light to sustain those findings. Where, as here, circumstantial evidence is relied on, it must be sufficient to make the theory asserted reasonably probable, not merely…