Keene Cooperative Grain & Supply Co. v. Farmers Union Industries Mutual Insurance

This is an action upon a fire insurance policy issued *289by the Farmers Union Industries Mutual Insurance Company, the defendant, to the Keene Cooperative Grain & Supply Company, the plaintiff. In the trial court the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff. The defendant’s motion for new trial was overruled and it has appealed.

The plaintiff operates a grain elevator and storage facility at Keene, Nebraska. On October 31, 1960, the manager of the plaintiff noticed that some of the bolts in two of the steel grain storage tanks had been sheared off and that the seams in the tanks were spreading…