Tedder v. Home Ins. Co.

As observed by counsel, the pleadings in this cause are multitudinous, but the real issues to he tried were few and simple.

The undisputed evidence showed that plaintiff violated two provisions of the “iron safe clause” in his insurance policy, in that he kept no hooks and no complete records of his business transactions, and in that such records or memoranda as he kept were not kept in a fireproof safe, or at some other place not exposed to a fire that would destroy the store building. Plaintiff seems to have adopted, in a very imperfect way, what is known as the McKaskey register system of…