Lumbermen's Mut. Ins. Co. of Mansfield v. Johnson Lumber Co.

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a verdict and judgment awarding recovery in a suit upon a policy of insurance issued upon appellees’ lumber yard in the village of Cleveland, Ga.

While in the court below many issues were fought out, the verdict of the jury has disposed of all of them except the issue arising on the “iron safe clause,” and having to do with whether plaintiffs’ records constituted a set of books within the meaning of the policy, defendant having objected to their introduction and having requested a directed verdict.

The question is presented here from two points of…