Aetna Insurance v. Fitze

GARRETT, Chief Justice.

W. E. Eitzé brought this action against the Aetna Insurance Company to recover upon three policies of fire insurance amounting to $4500. The defense was the failure of the assured to comply with certain stipulations of the policies known as the “iron safe clause,” requiring the taking of inventories, the keeping and preservation of a set of books showing a complete record of the business transacted, including purchases and sales and shipments, and the production after the fire of the two last inventories taken and the books as required. There was a jury trial which…